Aug 7, 2007
My Starbucks cup is talking to me
Found on my morning cup of coffee: The Way I See It #267
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears — it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more — it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.
– Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
I’ve always been a fan of neurologist Dr. Sacks. Not so much of Awakenings but his books The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars. They are all about how little we understand about the brain and the mind. Too bad Musicophilia doesn’t arrive till October. It promises to be an interesting read.
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