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Musicophilia

2007240 pagesPan Macmillan UK

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Explore the profound connection between music and the human brain with Oliver Sacks's "Musicophilia." Through compelling patient stories, Sacks reveals how music impacts our emotions, memories, and even our physical abilities. Discover the extraordinary ways music can heal, inspire, and shape our lives.

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Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.” He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of...

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