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Sacks Addresses Creativity
 Neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks spoke to a packed house at Washington College in March. More than 800 people filled the College's Tawes Theatre to hear the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and the inspiration for the film Awakenings lecture on "Creativity and the Brain." Sacks described clinical cases of famous savants, individuals with Tourette's Syndrome and other neurological conditions that provide some insights of the mental processes he proposed are hallmarks of truly creative minds.
Sacks also noted the "sane smallness" of Washington College during his visit. The event was part of the Second Annual Jesse Ball duPont Behavioral Neuroscience Speaker Series sponsored by the Jesse Ball duPont Fund, the Gibson-Wagner Fund, the Washington College Department of Psychology and the Washington College Chapter of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.
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