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Author and Nuerologist Oliver Saks is somewhat of a legend in my eyes. I love him. Robin Williams loves him too , having played his character in the true story Awakenings.
My obsession started after reading The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, a book which chronicles his real life encounters and diagnosis of patients troubled by phantom limbs, hallucinations and other quirks of the brain.
Musicophilia uncovers the mystical workings of music in the brain. Want to find out why Beyonce's songs get stuck in your head? Or wondered why you haven't yet become a musical genius? Then dig into this.
Best of all, there's no mumbo jumbo medical terms to puzzle over. Just great tales of fantastical musical hallucinations and paranoias.
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