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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007, revised and expanded edition 2008)
Paperback, Vintage Books, ISBN 978-1-4000-3353-9
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In his latest book, Dr. Sacks investigates the power of music to move, to heal and to haunt us.

Vintage Sacks includes the introduction and case study "Rose R." from Awakenings, as well as "A Deaf World" from Seeing Voices; "The Visions of Hildegard" from Migraine; excerpts from "Island Hopping" and "Pingelap" from The Island of the Colorblind; "A Surgeon’s Life" from An Anthropologist on Mars; and two chapters from Sacks’s memoir Uncle Tungsten.

A trip to see ferns in Mexico turns into a meditation on Mesoamerican civilization, chocolate, agriculture, mescal, amateur naturalists and more.

A memoir of growing up in World-War-II England as part of an extraordinary scientific family.

An exploration of a society where total congenital colorblindness is the norm, this book is also a meditation on islands and the strange neurologic malady on Guam which resembles parkinsonism and Alzheimer’s, and may provide the key to these diseases.

Seven paradoxical tales of patients adapting to neurological conditions including autism, Asperger’s syndrome, amnesia, epileptic reminiscence, Tourette’s syndrome, acquired colorblindness, and the restoration of vision after congenital blindness.

A journey into the world of deaf culture, and the neurological and social underpinnings of the remarkable visual language of the congenitally deaf.

The bestselling collection of clinical tales from the far borderlands of neurological and human experience.

Here the doctor becomes a patient, as Dr. Sacks chronicles the mountaineering accident which left him with the uncanny feeling of being "legless," and raises profound questions of the physical basis of identity.

The classic account of survivors of the encephalitic lethargica pandemic and their return to the world after decades of "sleep." This book was the inspiration for the 1990 film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams as Dr. Sacks.

An investigation of the many manifestations of migraine, including the visual hallucinations and distortions of space, time and body image which migraineurs can experience.