About the Book: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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
Parkinsons disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients