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In The Mind’s Eye Oliver Sacks writes about the stories of people who rise to the challenge of communication and navigation through creativity and adaptation. People’s experiences and upbringing teaches that there are certain indispensable senses that help in natural body processes like recognising faces, enabling humans to read and sense a three dimensional space. The Mind’s Eye is a collection of case studies that explore some of these fundamental aspects that enable the human brain to perceive and create the world without the necessary senses to do so. It includes his own experience with prosopagnosia or cancer of the eye and his struggles with it. The book testifies the complexity of vision and perception of brain through simple real life stories. Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 to one of the first female surgeons of England. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in physiology and biology from The Queen's College, Oxford University. He also completed his BM BCh from the same university and became qualified to practise medicine. He has been a teaching staff at a number of medical colleges over the years. In 2012, he became clinical professor of neurology at NYU Langone Medical Center. Sacks is also a biologist, neurologist, and writer. He began with writing about his experiences with his neurological patients. He is a regular contributor to many medical and general publications as well as The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. Other books by Sacks include, Migraine, Awakenings, which became the subject of the first documentary film made for British series of Discovery, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, An Anthropologist on Mars, The Island of the Colorblind, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and his latest work, Hallucinations.