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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

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Availability:In StockContributor:Oliver SacksPublish date:2008-09-23Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400033539ISBN-10:1400033535UPC:9781400033539Book Category:Psychology, Medical, MusicBook Subcategory:Creative Ability, Neurology, Instruction & StudyBook Topic:AppreciationSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCWK3T3YKH
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition.

"Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind." --The New York Times

In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music.

Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400033539ISBN-10:1400033535UPC:9781400033539Book Category:Psychology, Medical, MusicBook Subcategory:Creative Ability, Neurology, Instruction & StudyBook Topic:AppreciationSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCWK3T3YKH

Oliver Sacks was a physician, writer, and professor of neurology. Born in London in 1933, he moved to New York City in 1965, where he launched his medical career and began writing case studies of his patients. Called the "poet laureate of medicine" by The New York Times, Sacks is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Awakenings, which inspired an Oscar-nominated film and a play by Harold Pinter. He was the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2008 for services to medicine. He died in 2015.

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