Musicophilia Tales of Music and the Brain - Picador Classic

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.

ISBN:	9781509870141
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Imprint:	Picador
Published date:	12 Jul 2018
DEWEY:	781.11
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xxvii, 425
Weight:	378g
Height:	161mm
Width:	198mm
Spine width:	30mm

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