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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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

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

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 ...