For many viewers, the movie “Awakenings” is a powerfu message ... called ‘brady-kinesia,’ and shuffling gait. Patients have trouble with balance. Their posture tends to be bent.

Robert De Niro was in Goodfellas, he teamed up with Robin Williams Awakenings, a completely different type of performance for ...

“Awakenings” is the most moving American movie to deal with the issue of care ... lunch at the New York Botanical Gardens. Though the patients are statue-like, Sayer wonders whether they ...

The “Awakenings” phenomena refers to a movie of the same name, based on a real story about catatonic patients becoming lucid. “If the brain were able to access that normal state, even if it ...

"People have forgotten what life is all about," Robert De Niro's character says in the film Awakenings after being ... we even came across four patients who developed kleptomania (compulsive ...

For Michael Grassi, Brilliant Minds began with Warner Bros. Television's desire to create a show based on two books by famed ...

“Awakenings,” Starr said when asked about what movies touch him ... a neurologist who discovers that a new drug can awaken patients who have been in a catatonic state for decades due ...

The British doctor, whose work inspired the movie Awakenings as well as Harold Pinter's play A Kind of Alaska, is still seeing patients in his adopted home of New York. He is still recounting his ...