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• We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
• A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual…
• Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the…
• Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
• The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
• It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
• When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and…
• I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its…
• About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
• Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…
• I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an…
• 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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