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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of…
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When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
— Michele Bachmann
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Being pulled that long and that hard for a 12-hour day gave me migraines. It's what they used to do before there…
— Rob Lowe
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Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn…
— Oprah Winfrey
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If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to…
— Oliver Sacks
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Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern…
— Tim Cahill
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I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on…
— Jay Asher
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Rihanna told me her parents used to argue so intensely, she used to get these headaches, these migraines that were almost not…
— Tyra Banks
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What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.
— Ian McLagan
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I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting…
— Siri Hustvedt
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I never had migraines. Never had migraines.
— David Gest
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