Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general conc….

Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar fling….

Music is part of being human..

My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings.….

Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a substance, or the way ….

I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have gi….

Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are ….

Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain..

For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain….

The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains w….

And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is ….

I cannot pretend i am not without fear..

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living..

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine..

I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feel….

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, wh….

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient..

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave ….

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love..

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over..