Music doesn't convey information in the usual sense it doesn't represent anything in the external world, but it can move one to the depths. NEUROLOGY NOW Why does music so deeply touch people with dementia and other neurological disorders? Parkinson's patients reclaim their fluidity of movement or speech people with Alzheimer's rediscover, if only briefly, a coherent and continuous sense of identity. For many of the people he describes-their sense of self shattered by illness or injury-songs provide a surrogate feeling of structure or personal continuity. Sacks suggests that music can do more than jog the memory, a wonderful capability in itself. Meanwhile he continues to see patients, and his tales from the neurology ward are permeated by an "intuitive sympathy," as he calls it, as if the essence of the doctor-patient relationship required one to become a human tuning fork. Sacks is also a Columbia University "Artist"-a new position designed to help bridge the gap between neuroscience and other disciplines such as economics, social science, law, and the arts. Recently named professor of clinical neurology and clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, Dr. When you consider how popular his books have been, it's easy to forget that they aren't murder mysteries or bodice-ripping romances but stories about the brain. He's the closest thing to a rock star that a neurologist has ever become, and the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Awakenings, which inspired a movie featuring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a strange, fascinating collection of case histories. To say that Oliver Sacks, M.D., is one of the best-known neurologists in the world doesn't do him justice. In his latest book, Musicophelia, the esteemed author and neurologist delves into how patients can become unchained by melody.
Cluing in on the Mystery of Music Therapy with Oliver Sacks
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