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The book Awakening by the American neurologist and neuropsychologist Oliver Sacks is a real story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the epidemic immediately after the First World War. The author presents the case histories of 20 patients. Frozen in a trance-like state, these men and women spent several decades in this state, until 1969. The young doctor Sachs decided to use a new medicine. The results were both remarkable and disastrous. Within a few weeks, sometimes overnight, Sachs' patients were "awakened" from decades of immobility. They woke up to a world that had completely changed in the intervening years. Some of them were able to adapt, while others could not cope with the changes in the world and slipped back into a frozen state on their own. The doctor himself was amazed at how they were able to survive in such torment. He ponders the question of what reserves of our body have kept them strong all these years. Together with the reader, the author traces all the stages of the disease, its «awakening» and relapse again.

This book is a tragic story of an attempt to heal and reconcile with the disease, of the suffering and loneliness of people who were considered incurable and therefore forgotten for many years. It will attract the attention of people interested in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, medical professionals and the general public who are fascinated by medicine, psychology and the possibilities of the human brain.

Favourable reviews of the book «Awakening» have been published by such well-known world publications as the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Observer and others. They call it a brilliant and humane work, one of the best written and humane books of our time.

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