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  • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain | Oliver Sacks
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    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release Date: 09-28-07
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    Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does - humans are a musical species.

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    Oliver Sacks' 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. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. 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. Yet far more frequently, music goes right....

  • Fresh Air, Oliver Sacks, October 17, 2007 | Terry Gross
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    Hear neurologist Oliver Sacks and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Oliver Sacks' new book is Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. It's a series of case histories that examine the relationship of music and the mind. Sacks has written eleven books; the most famous are Awakenings, which was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

  • To the Best of Our Knowledge: The Creative Brain | Jim Fleming
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    • Release Date: 11-28-12
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    Creativity is a little like obscenity: You know it when you see it, but you can't exactly define it....unless you're a neuroscientist. In labs around the country, a new generation of scientists tackles the mystery of human creativity - where it comes from and how it works.

  • The Bob Edwards Show, Doyle McManus and Oliver Sacks, October 22, 2007 | Bob Edwards
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    • Release Date: 10-22-07
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    Our usual Monday morning news analyst is away, so Bob talks politics with Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Then, Bob talks with author and neurologist Oliver Sacks about many things including his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, where Sacks investigates the power of music to move, heal, and haunt us.

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