We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“One does not see with the eyes; one sees with the brain, which has dozens of different systems for analyzing the input… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“...when the brain is released from the constraints of reality, it can generate any sound, image, or smell in its repertoire, sometimes… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“an octopus may have half a billion nerve cells distributed between its brain and its “arms” (a mouse, by comparison, has only… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“The feelings are similar, in some ways, to those one has in Rome or Athens, but quite different in other ways, because this culture… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ears. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
“We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognise and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
“But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess— that there is always a reaction,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
“unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you.… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
