With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sacks examines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people.Among them a surgeon who is struck by lightning and suddenly becomes obsessed with Chopin people with &lsquoamusia&rsquo, to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds &ndash for everything but music.Dr Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson&rsquos disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people who are deeply disoriented by Alzheimer&rsquos or schizophrenia.Musicophilia alters our conception of who we are and how we function, and shows us an essential part of what it is to be human.Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

Binding: Paperback;448 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: AVA; Weight: 426 g; Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 31

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