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‘Musicophilia’: Oliver Sacks investigates the healing power of music in his book

‘Musicophilia’: Oliver Sacks investigates the healing power of music in his book

British neurologist Oliver Sacks believes that listening to patients should be at the heart of medicine. In his 2007 book entitled ‘Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,’ he explores the place of melody in the human brain that is ‘capable of expressing and evoking emotions and mental states that go beyond language.’ Music, thus, has a [...]