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Dr. Oliver Sacks on Music and the Mind

By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: Robert Krulwich
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 Dubbed "the poet laureate of medicine" by The New York Times, Dr. Oliver Sacks is one of the great medical writers and storytellers of our time. He has transformed our understanding of the human mind and restored narrative to a central place in the practice of medicine. His best-selling books, including Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, and An Anthropologist on Mars, entertain, enlighten, and inspire his many fans around the world.Listen to Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.©2009 92nd Street Y (P)2009 92nd Street Y Mental Health Psychology Psychology & Mental Health

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One of the great medical writers of our time, British neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks has been called the "poet laureate of medicine" by The New York Times. Speaking with Radiolab's Robert Krulwich, Dr. Sacks expands on the connection between music and the mind, the subject of his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Dr. Sacks has an elegant voice that contrasts appealingly with Krulwich's dry tones, and he demonstrates his unique ability to describe and explain medical and psychological topics in a graceful and accessible way.
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a series of disjointed segments of Sacks own stories and patient stories with interjections and interruptions from Robert Krulwich... not what I was expecting, I hoped to hear more of Sacks findings on music and the mind but mostly it's interrupted anecdotes

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