On uncontrollable urges, Oliver Sacks’s last article
Royal Library, Windsor Castle. Detail of a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1510–1511
Walter B., an affable, outgoing man of forty-nine, came to see me in 2006. As a teenager, following a head injury, he had developed epileptic seizures—these first took the form of attacks of déjà vu that might occur dozens of times a day. Sometimes he would hear music that no one else could hear. He had no idea what was happening to him and, fearing ridicule or worse, kept his strange experiences to himself.
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