25/06/2010
We are looking for the neural basis of musical and mystical inspiration
Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, discusses the story of Tony Cicoria, an American surgeon. After being struck by lightning, and suffering cardiac arrest, Dr. Cicoria recovered completely. He later found, however, that he had “insatiable passion to hear piano music” and later began creating and performing his own compositions. The story related in the video comes from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Dr. Sacks’s latest book.
(For more information, visit http://www.oliversacks.com)
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