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Tales of Music and the Brain
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Oliver Sacks
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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.
Oliver Sacks’s 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: Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson’s disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people whose memories are ravaged by Alzheimer’s or amnesia.Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
"[Sacks'] customary erudition and fellow-feeling ensure that, no matter how clinical the discussion becomes, it remains, like the music of Mozart, accessible and congenial." (Booklist)
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"Sacks is an unparalleled chronicler of modern medicine, and fans of his work will find much to enjoy when he turns his prodigious talent for observation to music and its relationship to the brain." (Publishers Weekly)
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- How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back
- De: Clark Elliott Ph.D.
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn't walk across a room, or even name his five children. Doctors told him he would never fully recover. After eight years, the cognitive demands of his job, and of being a single parent, finally became more than he could manage.
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Mostly Tedious With Moments of Insight
- De Brent en 01-17-16
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Naked at the Albert Hall
- The Inside Story of Singing
- De: Tracey Thorn
- Narrado por: Tracey Thorn
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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In her bestselling autobiography, Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a 30-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there wasn't time for an in-depth look at what she actually did for all those years: sing. She sang with warmth and emotional honesty, sometimes while battling acute stage fright.
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Fascinating
- De Jane Sheedy en 01-11-17
De: Tracey Thorn
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Babel No More
- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- De: Michael Erard
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages...or seventy? In Babel No More, Michael Erard, "a monolingual with benefits," sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like Italian cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages; Emil Krebs, a pugnacious German diplomat, who spoke sixty-eight languages; and Lomb Kat, a Hungarian who taught herself Russian by reading Russian romance novels.
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Heavy on anecdote, light on science
- De S. Yates en 07-15-16
De: Michael Erard
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A General Theory of Love
- De: Richard Lannon MD, Thomas Lewis MD, Fari Amini MD
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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This original and lucid account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being draws on the latest scientific research. Three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain.
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Great subject matter-hard to listen to
- De Laurel en 07-22-19
De: Richard Lannon MD, y otros
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The Body Keeps the Score
- Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- De: Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent more than three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.
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Overall Worthwhile, Lingers Too Long in the Why
- De LittleBeadsOfMercury en 04-07-21
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The Emotional Life of Your Brain
- How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live - and How You Can Change Them
- De: Richard J. Davidson Ph.D., Sharon Begley
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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Why are some people so quick to recover from a setback while others wallow in despair? Why are some people so highly attuned to others that they seem psychic, while other people put both feet in it over and over again? Why are some people always up and others always down? In this hotly anticipated book, award-winning, pioneering neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson answers these questions by offering an entirely new model of our emotions - their origins, their power, and their malleability.
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Looks Like I Will Be The First Reviewer...
- De Douglas en 11-03-13
De: Richard J. Davidson Ph.D., y otros
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Super Mind
- How to Boost Performance and Live a Richer and Happier Life Through Transcendental Meditation
- De: Norman E. Rosenthal MD
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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The noted research psychiatrist and New York Times best-selling author explores how Transcendental Meditation permanently alters your daily consciousness, resulting in greater productivity, emotional resilience, and aptitude for success.
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Infomercial
- De Amazon Customer en 11-22-16
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How the Body Knows Its Mind
- The Surprising Power of the Physical Environment to Influence How You Think and Feel
- De: Sian Beilock
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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An award-winning scientist offers a groundbreaking new understanding of the mind-body connection and its profound impact on everything from advertising to romance. The human body is not just a passive device carrying out messages sent by the brain but rather an integral part of how we think and make decisions.
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The New Science Of The Mind Body Connection!
- De Dianne en 04-06-15
De: Sian Beilock
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Bright from the Start
- The Simple, Science-Backed Way to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind from Birth to Age 3
- De: Jill Stamm, Paula Spencer
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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Should you really read to your baby? Can teaching a baby sign language boost IQ? Should you pipe classical music into the nursery? Dr. Jill Stamm translates the latest neuroscience findings into clear explanations and practical suggestions, demonstrating the importance of the simple ways you interact with your child every day. It isn't the right edutainment that nurtures an infant's brain. It is as simple as attention, bonding, and communication, and it's within every parent's ability to provide.
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Very helpful book
- De Esteban en 09-30-20
De: Jill Stamm, y otros
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The Open-Focus Brain
- Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body
- De: Les Fehmi, Jim Robbins
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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This breakthrough book presents a disarmingly simple idea: The way we pay attention in daily life can play a critical role in our health and well-being. According to Dr. Les Fehmi, a clinical psychologist and researcher, many of us have become stuck in “narrow-focus attention”: a tense, constricted, survival mode of attention that holds us in a state of chronic stress - and which lies at the root of common ailments including anxiety, depression, ADD, stress-related migraines, and more.
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Helpful.
- De Javada Hill en 08-14-20
De: Les Fehmi, y otros
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Brain Rules for Aging Well
- 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp
- De: John Medina
- Narrado por: John Medina
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts - and the prescription to age well - in his signature engaging style. With so many discoveries over the years, science is literally changing our minds about the optimal care and feeding of the brain. All of it is captivating. A great deal of it is unexpected.
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Scientific and practical
- De symya08 en 04-29-18
De: John Medina
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The Mind's Eye
- De: Oliver Sacks
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An exploration of vision through the case histories of six individuals - including a renowned pianist who continues to give concerts despite losing the ability to read the score, and a neurobiologist born with crossed eyes who, late in life, suddenly acquires binocular vision, and how her brain adapts to that new skill.
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Same ole Sacks--great yarns as usual.
- De Rlelli07 en 10-26-10
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Hallucinations
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Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.
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Not Just Hallucinations
- De Pamela Harvey en 01-05-13
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An Anthropologist on Mars
- Seven Paradoxical Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
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To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.
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SACKS IS AN ABSOLUTE JOY !!
- De Jeff en 09-22-13
De: Oliver Sacks
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The River of Consciousness
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren, Kate Edgar
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A collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks' passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human.
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Important but Less Interesting
- De Michael en 11-16-17
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Migraine
- De: Oliver Sacks
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Dr. Oliver Sacks argues the migraine cannot be understood simply as an illness, but must be viewed as a complex condition with a unique role to play in each individual's life.
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Why is this an audio book?
- De BW724 en 06-25-19
De: Oliver Sacks
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Gratitude
- Essays
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 36 m
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A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death.
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To the Point, Yet Told From the Heart
- De LJT en 01-18-16
De: Oliver Sacks
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The Mind's Eye
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Oliver Sacks, Richard Davidson
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An exploration of vision through the case histories of six individuals - including a renowned pianist who continues to give concerts despite losing the ability to read the score, and a neurobiologist born with crossed eyes who, late in life, suddenly acquires binocular vision, and how her brain adapts to that new skill.
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Same ole Sacks--great yarns as usual.
- De Rlelli07 en 10-26-10
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Hallucinations
- De: Oliver Sacks
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Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.
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Not Just Hallucinations
- De Pamela Harvey en 01-05-13
De: Oliver Sacks
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An Anthropologist on Mars
- Seven Paradoxical Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.
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SACKS IS AN ABSOLUTE JOY !!
- De Jeff en 09-22-13
De: Oliver Sacks
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The River of Consciousness
- De: Oliver Sacks
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A collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks' passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human.
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- De Michael en 11-16-17
De: Oliver Sacks
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Migraine
- De: Oliver Sacks
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Dr. Oliver Sacks argues the migraine cannot be understood simply as an illness, but must be viewed as a complex condition with a unique role to play in each individual's life.
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Why is this an audio book?
- De BW724 en 06-25-19
De: Oliver Sacks
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Gratitude
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- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 36 m
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A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death.
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To the Point, Yet Told From the Heart
- De LJT en 01-18-16
De: Oliver Sacks
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Uncle Tungsten
- Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and best-selling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals - also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the he chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.
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- De Jeff en 05-02-12
De: Oliver Sacks
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Musicophilia
- Tales of Music and the Brain
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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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....
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- De Amazon Customer en 07-09-20
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
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I rarely stop reading a book halfway through...
- De Rusty en 09-04-15
De: Oliver Sacks
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's.
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Missing Sacks
- De Brandy en 12-02-19
De: Oliver Sacks
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This Is Your Brain on Music
- The Science of a Human Obsession
- De: Daniel J. Levitin
- Narrado por: Daniel J. Levitin
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life - even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last becoming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology. Both a cutting-edge study and a tribute to the beauty of music itself, This Is Your Brain on Music unravels a host of mysteries that affect everything from pop culture to our understanding of human nature.
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Really boring.
- De alex velasquez en 11-24-20
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Awakenings
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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Awakenings - which inspired the major motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and their extraordinary transformations.
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Absolute classic!
- De Douglas en 09-01-12
De: Oliver Sacks
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Seeing Voices
- A Journey Into the World of the Deaf
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
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In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect - a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well.
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A Rich Experience
- De Douglas en 11-27-12
De: Oliver Sacks
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Letters
- De: Oliver Sacks, Kate Edgar - editor
- Narrado por: James Langton, Kate Edgar
- Duración: 28 h y 32 m
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Sensitively introduced and edited by Kate Edgar, Sacks’s longtime editor, the letters deliver a portrait of Sacks as he wrestles with the workings of the brain and mind. We see, through his eyes, the beginnings of modern neuroscience, following the thought processes of one of the great intellectuals of our time, whose words, as evidenced in this book, were unfailingly shaped with generosity and wonder toward other people.
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Beautiful letters by a beautiful mind
- De Adriana D. Briscoe en 01-13-25
De: Oliver Sacks, y otros
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A Leg to Stand On
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the best-selling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey.
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Not sure what he was trying for here
- De John S. en 08-17-11
De: Oliver Sacks
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How Music Works
- De: David Byrne
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman, David Byrne
- Duración: 13 h y 10 m
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Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaborations with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and many others, David Byrne taps deeply into his lifetime of knowledge to explore the panoptic elements of music, how it shapes the human experience, and reveals the impetus behind how we create, consume, distribute, and enjoy the songs, symphonies, and rhythms that provide the backbeat of life. Byrne’s magnum opus uncovers thrilling realizations about the redemptive liberation that music brings us all.
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Kind of all over the place
- De Amazon Customer en 02-17-23
De: David Byrne
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Musicofilia
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Riccardo Bocci
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
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Un giorno, a New York, Oliver Sacks partecipa all'incontro organizzato da un batterista con una trentina di persone affette dalla sindrome di Tourette. Poi il batterista inizia a suonare, e tutti in cerchio lo seguono con i loro tamburi: come per incanto i tic scompaiono, e il gruppo si fonde in una perfetta sincronia ritmica. Presentando questo e molti altri casi con la consueta capacità di immedesimazione, Sacks esplora la "straordinaria forza neurale" della musica e i suoi nessi con le funzioni e disfunzioni del cervello.
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Oaxaca Journal
- De: Oliver Sacks
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks - introduction
- Duración: 4 h y 10 m
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Oliver Sacks is well known as an explorer of the human mind - a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions. However, he is also a card-carrying member of the American Fern Society, and since childhood has been fascinated by these primitive plants and their ability to survive and adapt in many climates. Oaxaca Journal is Sacks' spellbinding account of his trip with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts to the beautiful, history-steeped province of Oaxaca, Mexico.
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A gem
- De Daniela en 06-04-15
De: Oliver Sacks
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Musicophilia
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The Best Of Sacks...
is when he removes himself (and his ego) from the narratives and simply brings neurological science to the laymen in clear, easy-to-understand terms and still does not dumb things down or oversimplify. This book is the best of Sacks. He explores all the things that can go right, and wrong, in the brain in regard to music, demonstrating that there are numerous areas of the brain dedicated to understanding and processing music, and thus, I believe, shows Pinker to be wrong when he said, "music is simply 'cheesecake for the brain' and has no evolutionary value..." He does this latter best when he demonstrates the direct link between language and music and how one probably evolved from the other--that is, that music serves as a very real form of communication, even without words.
I almost never comment on narrators--but this one was very good!
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- Bill W
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A a lot of stories
A lot of stories, which were interesting, but not a lot of science to explain all the interesting findings
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A Great Gift you can give your loved ones
I have to admit that I just am fascinated by all of Oliver Sacks' stories. I actually used the concepts discussed in this book on my uncle who had Alzheimer's disease and was getting very disconnected from life. He had been a bluegrass mandolin player and responded very positively to playing "Will the Circle Be Unbroken". I bought the CD for him so that my aunt could play it for him. He could actually sing along with Maybelle Carter on "Wildwood Rose" and he named the singer. My aunt thanked me for giving this gift to him. And I thank Dr. Sacks for bringing these books to us. They are more than idle entertainment.
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Soulful
Long. Sometimes sad. Yet full of hope. I now believe that music may be the very touch of God within us all.
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- DaveF
- 11-07-19
Man's intimate relationship with music.
Our brain is possibly the most wondrous entity in our known universe. Neuroscientist and author Oliver Sacks believed that and was one of its finest explorers. He wrote more than a dozen books on a wide variety of neurological phenomena, disease, injuries, etc. "Musicophilia" is my first venture into his writing. It was a fascinating and illuminating journey, recommended for anyone with more than a passing interest in health and the human condition.
"Musicophilia" examines in some detail man's unique and intimate relationship with music. Sacks does this through numerous case studies of patients with various diseases, injuries, genetic differences, etc. of the brain. The results is an amazing variety of unique (some might say wondrous) acquired abilities and disabilities. It becomes quite obvious that the power of the human brain is almost hard to grasp, and that despite our huge scientific and medical advances, we are still in the infancy of brain understanding.
This book is well worth your time if the topic is of interest. Be forewarned, however, at times it can be like taking a drink from a firehose!
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- MIssMartha
- 11-25-20
Just fascinating!
This is my first foray into Oliver Sacks' books, and the material is simply extraordinary. Not only is the subject matter fascinating, but the sheer variety of tales, many first hand, as well as the humanity of the writing makes the book completely engrossing. I'm off to check out The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat next. :D
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- jz
- 02-19-23
Musicophillia
Unique and comprehensive insights into the connections between music and the brain including how music can improve life for those afflicted by a variety of later life challenges.
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- DaemonZeiro
- 12-04-17
Entertaining short stories and case studies
Musicophilia is an intriguing stroll through Oliver Sacks' experience with individuals who have pathologies effecting musical perceptions. He goes through a number of pathologies, such as Alzheimers, that aren't typically considered related to music but can often use music as a form of treatment or way of bettering life for patients that have little else. It's an interesting and revealing listen. At times the stories seem to meander a bit but it's overall a pleasant listen with John Lee doing a great job with narration.
If you consider yourself a music (especially classical) aficionado, you'll enjoy this book more as specifics regarding composers and symphonies are referenced throughout. This book is somewhat educational, but appropriate for a relaxed audience.
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- Jack Frasier
- 03-03-21
quite insightful, though nothing about harmonics
loads of info aboutmusic, psychology and the brain. nothing about harmonics and tones individually though, their meanings and representations. still very potent knowledge and info.
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- Gustavo
- 01-30-12
The brain and music: how they are connected it.
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, especially if that person likes either psycology, music or the inner works of our brain. It is very well narrated, very informative.
Who was your favorite character and why?
It is not a fictional work. But you can relate to some of the cases discussed in here.
Which character – as performed by John Lee – was your favorite?
I didn't finish all the book yet, but John Lee has done a great job. I downloaded another book narrated by the author himself. I could not stand it, whereas in this book even the most technical details seem to be a normal complement to the whole book. With a lesser narrator, I don't even know if I could stand it either.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It is not that kind of book, although someone else might be more sensitive than me as to this.
Any additional comments?
I cannot say what exactly makes this book so good. Could be its narrator, the way it is written, the odd aspects related to music, or the whole ensemble. Whatever it is, is a very good reading to learn things about our mind.
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