Music may move us to the levels or depths of feeling. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing at all else can. It could get us dancing to its defeat. However the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies even more areas of our human brain than language does-humans are a musical species.

Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have got fundamentally about Musicophilia: Stories of Music and the Brain changed the way we think of our very own brains, and of the human being encounter. In MUSICOPHILIA, he examines the power of music through the individual experiences of sufferers, musicians, and everyday people. He explores how catchy tunes can subject matter us to hours of mental replay, and how a surprising amount of people acquire non-stop musical hallucinations that assault them night and day. Yet a lot more frequently, music goes correct: Sacks explains how music can animate people who have Parkinson’s disease who cannot usually move, give words and phrases to stroke patients who cannot in any other case speak, and calm and organize people whose thoughts are ravaged by Alzheimer’s or amnesia.

Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in MUSICOPHILIA, Oliver Sacks tells us so why.