![]() ![]() The first of many tales within the book ”Musicophilia” contains one of the most compelling patient cases of this condition. Rather musicophilia describes when someone’s music listening habits and reactions suddenly go into overdrive, typically following a brain injury or illness. I had a search of the internet for you (my pleasure, dear reader) and I couldn’t find any reference to the term ‘musicophilia’ being used to describe normal, everyday music listening habits, even when these habits reach extremes of time or financial consumption. ![]() ![]() But is that the same thing? Are we musicophilics? Now, many of us crave music on a daily basis – myself included. Patients who are diagnosed with ‘musicophilia’ report a sudden, abnormal craving for music and/or increased interest and responsiveness to musical sound. But many people do not realise that it is also a poorly understood neurological phenomenon. Musicophilia is an excellent title for Sack’s book given its focus on both music-related phenomena and neurological patients. I have known many students to be first inspired to studying music psychology thanks to this enjoyable book. ![]() In this book Sacks employs his familiar engaging and compassionate narrative of neurological patients to explore afflictions and treatments surrounding music. If you go to any search engine and type in ‘musicophilia’ then you will more than likely be directed to the excellent book of that title by Oliver Sacks. ![]()
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