Musicophilia

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Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE, was a British neurologist residing in the United States, who has written popular books about his patients, the most famous of which is Awakenings, which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.

Sacks was the youngest of four children born to a prosperous North London Jewish couple: Sam, a physician, and Elsie, a surgeon. When he was six years old, he and his brother were evacuated from London to escape The Blitz, retreating to a boarding school in the Midlands, where he remained until 1943. During his youth, he was a keen amateur chemist, as recalled in his memoir Uncle Tungsten. He also learned to share his parents' enthusiasm for medicine and entered The Queen's College, Oxford University in 1951, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in physiology and biology in 1954. At the same institution, he went on to earn in 1958, a Master of Arts (MA) and an MB ChB in chemistry, thereby qualifying to practice medicine.

After converting his British qualifications to American recognition (i.e., an MD as opposed to MB ChB), Sacks moved to New York, where he has lived since 1965, and taken twice weekly therapy sessions since 1966.

Sacks began consulting at chronic care facility Beth Abraham Hospital (now Beth Abraham Health Service) in 1966. At Beth Abraham, Sacks worked with a group of survivors of the 1920s sleeping sickness, encephalitis lethargica, who had been unable to move on their own for decades. These patients and his treatment of them were the basis of Sacks' book Awakenings.

His work at Beth Abraham helped provide the foundation on which the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF), where Sacks is currently an honorary medical advisor, is built. In 2000, IMNF honored Sacks, its founder, with its first Music Has Power Award. The IMNF again bestowed a Music Has Power Award on Sacks in 2006 to commemorate "his 40 years at Beth Abraham and honor his outstanding contributions in support of music therapy and the effect of music on the human brain and mind".

Sacks was formerly employed as a clinical professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at the New York University School of Medicine, serving the latter school for 42 years. On 1 July 2007, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons appointed Sacks to a position as professor of clinical neurology and clinical psychiatry, at the same time opening to him a new position as "artist", which the university hoped will help interconnect disciplines such as medicine, law, and economics. Sacks was a consultant neurologist to the Little Sisters of the Poor, and maintained a practice in New York City.

Since 1996, Sacks was a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature). In 1999, Sacks became a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. Also in 1999, he became an Honorary Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford. In 2002, he became Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Class IV—Humanities and Arts, Section 4—Literature).[38] and he was awarded the 2001 Lewis Thomas Prize by Rockefeller University. Sacks was awarded honorary doctorates from the College of Staten Island (1991), Tufts University (1991), New York Medical College (1991), Georgetown University (1992), Medical College of Pennsylvania (1992), Bard College (1992), Queen's University (Ontario) (2001), Gallaudet University (2005), University of Oxford (2005), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2006). He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. Asteroid 84928 Oliversacks, discovered in 2003 and 2 miles (3.2 km) in diameter, has been named in his honor.

出版者:Knopf Publishing Group
作者:Oliver Sacks
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页数:400
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出版时间:2007-10-16
价格:GBP 9.99
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781400040810
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  • 音乐 
  • 心理学 
  • 大脑 
  • OliverSacks 
  • Music 
  • 原版 
  • neuroscience 
  • 脑科学 
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Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a musical species.

Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people—from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; from people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds—for everything but music.

Our exquisite sensitivity to music can sometimes go wrong: Sacks explores how catchy tunes can subject us to hours of mental replay, and how a surprising number of people acquire nonstop musical hallucinations that assault them night and day. Yet far more frequently, music goes right: Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson’s disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people whose memories are ravaged by Alzheimer’s or amnesia.

Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why.

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翻了几页有点晕,这不是脑外科专家的科研综述兼病例报告嘛,这也能拿来当科普书出?再翻几页,发现还真的能,至少我翻得停不下来了,这些千奇百怪但又有科学依据的病例还挺有趣的,看来神经内科这一专业在这方面还是有优势的[偷笑]而且不但能出,还很有必要,因为这本新版的书...  

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正如德博拉所述,当时他们不知道我那篇文章就像一面镜子,他们凝视的其实就是自己的未来。——书内摘 (本书的印象) 奥利弗∙萨克斯的书这些年也陆陆续续读了几本了,包括之前的《错把妻子当帽子》和最近的《钨舅舅》。这几本书的主题不尽相同。后者是一部基于作者自身经...  

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We probably do have an ingrained love or memory for music, different kinds of music for different people, of course. Music can sustain us, can wake us up from depression, memory loss, and other severe brain damages. The stories in the book are fantastic and...  

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有意思的书。还是Sacks一如既往的风格。许多有趣的病例的讨论。但是对于这些现象背后的神经科学的讨论还不够。

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喜欢音乐的,不喜欢音乐的,能表演的,爱欣赏的,都可以读一下这本书,肯定能发现对自己有意义的知识。副标题足够清楚,音乐与大脑的故事。中文译本书名很傻逼,只有不读书的傻逼,才会关注这种标题的图书

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很多案例读起来还是蛮有意思的

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部分章节过于学术了,最喜欢讲失忆的那一章,有点感动的一塌糊涂。

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想起Aldous Huxley在Music at Night中讲,After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music。大概能像Oliver Sacks这样,把inexpressible的东西勾勒得如此淋漓尽致细腻动人的,几乎也无神经科学家能出其右了吧。

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