However, we, his readers could indulge in comments, conclusions and judgments. He is modest and shows a lot of moderation and scientific discipline when it comes to interpretation of these facts. Olivier Sacks does not attempt to paint the big picture of relation between music and brain.
He analyses many forms of strange mental behaviour, from certain types of seizures that can be called "musical seizures", musical hallucinations through haunting musical "brainworms" to deep analysis of relation between music and blindness, musical savantisms or Williams syndrome. The book is written in the form of reports and accounts and conclusions about cases of severe mental illnesses and their relation to music or musical perception. Musicophilia is the book that should shake our views about musical perception and the role of music for the understanding of human mind. Olivier Sacks, professor of neurology and psychiatry, the author of famous book "The Man who mistook His Wife for a Hat" wrote another incredible tractate. Musicophilia - a tractate on musical brain Yet far more frequently, music goes right: 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 whose memories are ravaged by Alzheimer’s or amnesia.Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why.
He explores how catchy tunes can subject us to hours of mental replay, and how a surprising number of people acquire nonstop musical hallucinations that assault them night and day. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. 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.
Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does - humans are a musical species. But the power of music goes much, much further. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date.
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion.
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