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Musicophilia

Tales of Music and the Brain. Picador Classic

By (author) Oliver Sacks
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Pan Macmillan, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Published: 12th Jul 2018
Dimensions: w 132mm h 201mm d 27mm
Weight: 370g
Interest age: From 18 years
ISBN-10: 1509870148
ISBN-13: 9781509870141
Barcode No: 9781509870141
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With an introduction by neuroscientist Daniel Glaser. With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sacks examines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. Among them: a surgeon who is struck by lightning and suddenly becomes obsessed with Chopin; people with 'amusia', to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of poets and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds - for everything but music. Dr Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson's disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people who are deeply disoriented by Alzheimer's or schizophrenia. Musicophilia alters our conception of who we are and how we function, and shows us an essential part of what it is to be human.

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