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Musicophilia is neurologist Oliver Sacks' latest book delving into "different brained" people. The book focuses on music and its impact on people afflicted with different reactions to music. One patient is a man who after being struck by lightening, is suddenly inspired to become a concert pianist. Sacks also examines a group of children with Williams Syndrome who have an extreme love of music right from birth. As a contrast, he examines a group of people with amusia - they hear a symphony as if it's just pots and pans banging away. He also examines an especially intriguing patient who has no short term memory and can't remember anything that happened more than 7 seconds ago, except when it comes to music, which he can remember thoroughly.

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Gives the reader a renewed appreciation for music
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Interesting stories
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Sacks goes indepth with the patients so you understand them better
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Not scientific enough for some people
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Oliver Sacks has been an instrumental person in bringing rare brain phenomenon to the mainstream. With Musicophilia he examines how music goes wrong in some individuals and how it goes absolutely right in most others. He features inspiring stories of Alzeimer's patients, patients suffering from Parkinson's and stroke victims and how music helped in some way.

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1.  avatar GT-D  Oct 16, 2007 1:41pm

As a phil major I've read a lot of crazy things about people with all sorts of special things relating to how they interpret things or how their mind works... theres some really interesting stuff out there. This sounds like it'd be a lot of fun to read, but not something you could reliably reference in a paper.
2.  avatar Amanie  Oct 16, 2007 3:02pm

You should totally check out Oliver Sacks' other books, they're really interesting. The movie Awakenings with Robert DeNiro is based on his book of the same name.
3.  avatar Amanie  Oct 17, 2007 3:07pm

As an interesting coincidence, Law & Order SVU had a little girl with Williams Syndrome on it last night!
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Key Features:

Author Oliver Sacks
Genre Health
Manufacturer Knopf Publishing Group
MSRP $26.00
Product Line Gift Idea
Release Date Oct. 16, 2007

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Created: 10/16/2007 - 10:40
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