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   Why was Musicophilia written?

   • According to Sacks [citation needed], Musicophilia was written in an attempt to widen the general populace's understanding of music and its effects on the brain. As Sacks states at the outset of the book's preface, music is omnipresent, influencing human's everyday lives in how we think and act.

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   Is Musicophilia a good book?

   • Musicophilia was listed as one of the best books of 2007 by The Washington Post. Sacks includes discussions of several different conditions associated with music as well as conditions that are helped by music.

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   What is Musicophilia?

   • Musicophilia is a Chopin mazurka recital of a book, fast, inventive and weirdly beautiful . . . Yet what is most awe-inspiring is his observational empathy.” —The American Scholar

   Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain | Oliver Sacks

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   Is Musicophilia a great-hits collection?

   • Although Musicophilia revisits some of his earlier cases, Sacks has refocused the stories on music's healing role, making the book "not so much a greatest-hits collection as a purposeful set of remixes," according to the Los Angeles Times.

   Oliver Sacks Observes the Mind Through Music : NPR

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   What is musciophilia by Oliver Sacks about?

   • Reading Oliver Sacks’ Musciophilia gave me part of the answer. Musicophilia is essentially a compilation of tales that revolve around how music can affect ordinary people in extraordinary ways.

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   Is Musicophilia a Chopin Mazurka?

   • In this New York Times bestseller—now revised and expanded for the paperback edition—Dr. Sacks investigates the power of music to move us, to heal and to haunt us. “Musicophilia is a Chopin mazurka recital of a book, fast, inventive and weirdly beautiful.”

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   Since music is a fundamental aspect of every culture, it embodies every human emotion and can even transport us to an earlier time through our memory. Oliver Sacks, author of Musicophilia, acknowledges the unconscious effects of music as our body tends to join in the rhythmic motions involuntarily. [6]

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   Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. 2007. In this New York Times bestseller—now revised and expanded for the paperback edition—Dr. Sacks investigates the power of music to move us, to heal and to haunt us.

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5. musicpsychology.co.uk › musicophilia-real-butMusicophilia – real but poorly understood - Music Psychology

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   Rather musicophilia describes when someone’s music listening habits and reactions suddenly go into overdrive, typically following a brain injury or illness. The first of many tales within the book ”Musicophilia” contains one of the most compelling patient cases of this condition.

6. www.npr.org › 2008/10/03 › 95336672Music On The Mind: Oliver Sacks' 'Musicophilia' - NPR

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   Oct 3, 2008 · Ever wonder how a song gets stuck in your head? Neurologist Oliver Sacks explains this and other mind-music mysteries in Musicophilia, a collection of essays detailing the 20-30 neural networks...

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   Musicophilia is essentially a compilation of tales that revolve around how music can affect ordinary people in extraordinary ways. There is a story of a man who unlocked his passion for music after being struck by lightning and stories of people who experience intense musical dreams in vivid detail.

8. www.npr.org › 2007/11/13 › 16110162Oliver Sacks Observes the Mind Through Music : NPR

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   Nov 13, 2007 · Physician and author Oliver Sacks has spent 40 years studying the human brain. In Musicophilia, his latest foray into neurological mysteries, he examines how music works on –- and in –- the mind.

9. www.nytimes.com › 2007/11/20 › booksMusicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain - Oliver Sacks ...

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   Nov 20, 2007 · In his latest book, “Musicophilia,” Dr. Sacks focuses on people afflicted with strange musical disorders or powers — “musical misalignments” that affect their professional and daily lives.