Author: Sacks, Oliver

Humans are a musical species; music occupies more areas of our brain than language. Dr. Sacks's tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions in previous books have fundamentally changed our concept of the human experience. Now he examines the powers of music through the experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people - from people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth. Now in paper. 320 pp.