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…effects in his 1973 book Awakenings, which was made into a motion picture (1990) starring Robin Williams as the doctor.
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encephalitis lethargica

In encephalitis lethargica
…the time, and his book Awakenings (1973), made into a film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro in 1990, presents the case histories of these patients.
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