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 dep….

I cannot pretend i am not without fear..

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

To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, ….

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the d….

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….

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

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Man….

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well.

With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in ….

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

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

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory..

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

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations..

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have..

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers..

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other se….

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions..

If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. ….

People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and in….