
Read more occupies more areas of our brain than language does, but also that it can torment, calm, organize and heal.

In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people - those struck by affliction, unusual talent and even, in one case, by lightning - to show not only that music. This book is filled with wonders' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds. `A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. From the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

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