Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explores this phenomenon through various case studies, including a surgeon who is struck by lightning and subsequently becomes obsessed with Chopin. Describing how music can animate people with Parkinson`s Disease, can give words to stroke patients, or calm those disorientated by Alzheimer`s or schizophrenia, Sacks uses the example of music, and stories of individual experience, to illuminate the universal human condition. Arousing, inspiring, comforting - music is capable of stimulating both passion and compassion, speaking to our very core and taking us to the heights or depths of emotion.