Oliver Sacks: On Robin Williams and the Brain (Feb 23, 1995) | Charlie Rose

In this 1995 interview, famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks talks about the perils of profiling people, his friendship with Robin Williams (who played him in the film "Awakenings"), his wariness of technology, an island where 10% of the population can't see color, and his wonder over our "unimaginably complex and beautiful" brains.

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Oliver Sacks: On Robin Williams and the Brain  (Feb 23, 1995) | Charlie Rose
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