Oliver Sacks: What Hallucination reveals about our minds

http://www.ted.com/talks/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds.html

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of why this occurs.]

I found this talk really interesting. While I know hardly anything about Neurology and how the brain works I found it interesting how the brain fights back. With people that are losing, or have lost, their vision experiencing hallucinations due to their brain trying to stay active for the parts that are no longer getting stimulated. This makes sense to me and partly why Charles Bonnet Syndrome isn't heard about is due to peoples reluctance to talk about it because they are afraid of being labeled as crazy. The brain reacting like this makes complete sense to me and I think more people should know about it especially if they or a loved one is starting to lose their vision.

Name of Link: Speakers Oliver Sacks: Neurological anthropologist

http://www.ted.com/speakers/oliver_sacks.html

This is a link on the TED talks web page on why you would want to listen to what Oliver Sacks has to say. It also includes a link to his home page and links to related speakers/themes that can be found on the TED website.

Name of Link: Oliver Sacks, M.D. Author Neurologist

http://www.oliversacks.com/

This link is for Oliver Sacks own website. It has an about him page, news articles about him, his blog, a list of books he's done, and also includes links about books that have been turned into films, as well as other performances.

Name of Link:RNIB: Charles Bonnet Syndrom

http://www.rnib.org.uk/EYEHEALTH/EYECONDITIONS/CONDITIONSAC/Pages/charles_bonnet.aspx

This link is from the the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which is an England based organization supporting blind and partially sighted people. This particular link is an informative page about Charles Bonnet Syndrome