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Interview with Oliver Sacks  Oliver SacksPhysician and professor
Oliver Sacks is the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a
Hat, Awakenings, and Musicophilia, among many other works. A few
months ago, Dr. Sacks—whose moving, fascinating collections of
case studies nearly convinced this diehard fiction reader to
major in neuroscience instead of literature—graciously welcomed
me into his New York City study to discuss his latest book.
Hallucinations, fresh off the presses today, is one of our Best
Books of the Month selections for November.          The
cornerstone condition in Hallucinations is Charles Bonnet
syndrome, or CBS. Will you please describe CBS and tell us why
you chose to center the book on this condition?  I see lots of
elderly people who are hearing impaired or visually impaired but
quite articulate and intact intellectually. In general, the
hearing impaired get musica