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.
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.
为了给孩子陶冶情操,很小的时候就买了一些音乐光盘,还特意买了一套古诗词的,是谷建芬作曲的,结果听了不少遍之后孩子就有意无意间哼唱里面的古诗词,看了这本《脑袋里装了2000出歌剧的人》,我才明白人脑是个复杂的东西,音乐是个很特殊的表现形式,无意间对人脑就有一种特...
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评分翻了几页有点晕,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...
评分你今天听得是什么音乐?是现在最火的《感觉身体被掏空》?还是一首王菲的经典老歌?是一首安静古老的古琴曲?还是一首让人激昂的钢琴曲? 1966年,奥利弗•萨克斯开始到一家名叫贝丝•亚伯拉罕的医院服务,负责照顾慢性病人。那里有一群帕金森综合症患者。此病患者最根本...
评分这是本人在2009年2月21号的博客中所写的对该书的感想。今天凑巧在豆瓣看见书评,也来凑个热闹。 Musicophilia Cicoria continued to work on his piano playing and his compositions. He got books on notation, and soon realized that he needed a music teacher. He wou...
超级有趣!读的中文版。BTW,找了下书里提到的泰国大象乐团,居然有纪录片段,鼓和口琴很有亮点,看访谈都出了三张专辑了..
评分一个对音乐充满诚挚热爱的神经学学者。Oliver Sacks 像是在布道:人脑对音乐的反应早就谱写在了我们祖先的基因里,还有太多我们不了解,太多待利用发掘。
评分男神的书,读了一半了,总会惊喜到我。????????
评分很多案例读起来还是蛮有意思的
评分说出音乐本能不次于语言本能很重要,不过更重要的是勾勒出了音乐对于情感、认知的复杂关系,同时叙述极具文学性,比绝大部分 Affect Theory 实在多了。
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