Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain / Oliver Sacks
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TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf ; London : Picador, 2007Edition: 1. edDescription: xiv, 381 sISBN: - 978-1-4000-4081-0
- 1-4000-4081-7
- 978-0-330-41837-9 (inb.)
- 0-330-41837-8 (inb.) :
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- 0-330-44436-0 (hft.)
- 781/.11 22
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A bolt from the blue: sudden musicophilia -- A strangely familiar feeling: musical seizures -- Fear of music : musicogenic epilepsy -- Music on the brain : imagery and imagination -- Brainworms, sticky music and catchy tunes -- Musical hallucinations -- Sense and sensibility : a range of musicality -- Things fall apart : amusia and dysharmonia -- Papa blows his nose in G : absolute pitch -- Pitch imperfect : cochlear amusia -- In living stereo : why we have two ears -- Two thousand operas : musical savants -- An auditory world : music and blindness --The key of clear green : synesthesia and music -- In the moment : music and amnesia -- Speech and song : aphasia and music therapy -- Accidental davening : dyskinesia and cantillation -- Come together : music and Tourette's Syndrome -- Keeping time : rhythm and movement -- Kinetic melody : Parkinson's disease and music therapy -- Phantom fingers : the case of the one-armed pianist -- Athletes of the small muscles : musician's dystonia -- Awake and asleep : musical dreams -- Seduction and indifference -- Lamentations : music and depression -- The case of Harry S. : music and emotion -- Irrepressible : music and the temporal lobes -- A hypermusical species : Williams Syndrome -- Music and identity : dementia and music therapy