Full name: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Author: Oliver Sacks Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Music, Science, Psychology Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing Wikipedia ISBNs: 9781400033539 9780676979787 1400033535 0676979785

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does--humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. Here, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and Oliver Sacks tells us why.--From publisher description. Similar books: The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin The World in Six Songs by Daniel J. Levitin The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks An Anthropologist On Mars by Oliver Sacks The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks Migraine by Oliver Sacks Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks How Music Works by John Powell Britpop! by John Harris Black Metal by Dayal Patterson Music and the Mind by Anthony Storr How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt Otis Redding by Jonathan Gould A Mind of Its Own by Cordelia Fine Into the Silent Land by Paul Broks The Song Machine by John Seabrook Do Not Sell At Any Price by Amanda Petrusich