"If migraine patients have a common and legitimate……" — Oliver Sacks

"If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to."

— Oliver Sacks

78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks

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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…
Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the…
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange…
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…
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because…
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual…
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you.…
I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of…
Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many…

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