Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain - Oliver Sacks

From the legendary neurologist and bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat comes a powerful and compassionate (New York Times) book that examines the power of music and how it affects the brain. \n \nRevised and Expanded\n \nWith the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, 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. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks' latest masterpiece.\n