The great-grandson of Goldman Sachs's founder, he was a neurosurgeon at Dartmouth College's Hitchcock Medical Center for 30 years.
He researched the cause of schizophrenia as well as Ramsay Hunt syndrome, brain tumors and head injuries.
[1][2] He was an intern under the supervisions of Drs Barney Brooks and Cobb Pilcher at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
[1][2] Sachs joined the United States Army by the end of World War II, landing in Normandy in June 1944.
[2] He served in the Battle of the Bulge, and he was present at the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
[2] Sachs started his career as assistant professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology at Tulane University.
[1] Additionally, he studied the presence of the acetylcholine in the cerebrospinal fluid, and he "discovered serotonin in cases of brain tumors".