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. 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’ compassionate, compelling tales of people to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains,…
