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"This illuminating book about the power of music examines savants and synthesthetics, depressives and musical dreamers, and the author succeeds in articulating the musical experience and locating it in the human brain."@en
""Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots 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."--Back cover."@en
"Oliver Sacks has been hailed by the New York Times as 'one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century'. In this eagerly awaited new book, the subject of his uniquely literate scrutiny is music: our relationship with it, our facility for it, and what this most universal of passions says about us. In chapters examining savants and synaesthetics, depressives and musical dreamers, Sacks succeeds not only in articulating the musical experience but in locating it in the human brain. He shows that music is not simply about sound, but also movement, visualization, and silence. He follows the experiences of patients suddenly drawn to or suddenly divorced from music. And in so doing he shows, as only he can, both the extraordinary spectrum of human expression and the capacity of music to heal. Wise, compassionate and compellingly readable, "Musicophilia" promises, like all the best writing, to alter our conception of who we are and how we function, to lend a fascinating insight into the mysteries of the mind, and to show us what it is to be human."
"Sacks esplora la straordinaria robustezza neurale della musica e i suoi nessi con le funzioni e disfunzioni del cervello. Come sempre l'indagine su ciò che è anomalo getta luce su fenomeni di segno opposto: l'orecchio assoluto, la memoria fonograﬁca, l'intelligenza musicale e soprattutto l'amore per la musica - un amore che può divampare all'improvviso, come nel memorabile caso del medico che, colpito da un fulmine, viene assalito da un <<insaziabile desiderio di ascoltare musica per pianoforte>>, suonare e persino comporre. Grazie alle testimonianze dei pazienti di Sacks ci troviamo così a riconsiderare in una nuova prospettiva appassionanti interrogativi, e assistiamo ai successi della musicoterapia su formidabili banchi di prova quali l'autismo, il Parkinson, la demenza."
"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."@en
"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."

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"Musicofilia : relatos de la música y el cerebro"
"Musicofilia : relatos de la música y el cerebro"@es
"Musicophilia : Tales of music and the brain"
"Musicofilia : racconti sulla musica e il cervello"
"Musicofilia : racconti sulla musica e il cervello"@it
"Musicophilia"@en
"מוזיקופיליה"
"Musicophilia tales of music and the brain"@en
"Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain"@en
"Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain"
"Muziḳofilyah : sipurim ʻal muziḳah ṿeha-moaḥ"
"Musicofília : històries de la música i del cervell"@ca
"Musicofília : històries de la música i del cervell"
"Musicofília històries de la música i del cervell"
"Musicophilia : Tales of Music and the Brain"
"Musicophilia : tables of music and the brain"
"Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain ; The man who mistook his wife for a hat"
"Musicofilia : verhalen over muziek en het brein"

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