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La musique peut nous émouvoir jusqu’au tréfonds de notre être, nous inciter à danser ou nous rendre triste et nostalgique. Quand on est un neurologue aussi compétent qu’Oliver Sacks, et ouvert, comme lui, à bien d’autres disciplines, comment peut-on comprendre et décrire ce pouvoir ? Plus d’aires cérébrales sont affectées au traitement de la musique qu’à celui du langage : l’homme est donc véritablement une espèce musicale. Bien des exemples le montrent, évoqués par Sacks avec la force et le talent qu’on lui connaît, depuis ce chirurgien frappé par un éclair qui devient soudain pianiste à l’âge de quarante-deux ans jusqu’au frère manchot de Wittgenstein, en passant par les arriérés mentaux mélomanes. La musique est souvent médicalement bienfaisante : elle anime les parkinsoniens incapables de se mouvoir, apaise les patients atteints de la maladie d’Alzheimer ou restitue des souvenirs à certains amnésiques. L’homme a une véritable dimension musicale. Oliver Sacks la décrit dans toute son étendue, d’un point de vue scientifique, philosophique et spirituel.

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Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was "born with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly transformed by the simplest of harmonies. With clinical studies covering the tragic (individuals afflicted by an inability to connect with any melody) and triumphant (Alzheimer's patients who find order and comfort through music), Sacks provides an erudite look at the notion that humans are truly a "musical species." --Dave Callanan

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Oliver Sacks, neurologue, professeur à l’Albert Einstein College of Medicine et à l’Université de New York, est notamment l’auteur de L’Éveil (1987), L’Homme qui prenait sa femme pour un chapeau (1988) et Un anthropologue sur Mars (1996), publiés aux Éditions du Seuil.

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