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demonstrates the near-miraculous power of music to animate Parkinson’s patients and other people with 
severe movement disorders, even those who are frozen into odd postures. Scientists cannot yet explain how 
music achieves this effect. 
To readers who are unfamiliar with neuroscience and music behavior, Musicophilia may be 
something of a revelation. But the book will not satisfy those seeking the causes and implications of the 
phenomena Sacks describes. For one thing, Sacks appears to be more at ease dis-cussing patients than 
discussing experiments. And he tends to be rather uncritical in accepting scientific findings and theories. It’s 
true that the causes of music-brain oddities remain poorly understood. 
However, Sacks could have done more to draw out some of the implications of the careful 
observations that he and other neurologists have made and of the treatments that have been successful. For 
example, he might have noted that the many specific dissociations among components of music 
comprehension, such as loss of the ability to perceive harmony but not melody, indicate that there is no 
music center in the brain. Because many people who read the book are likely to believe in the brain 
localisation of all mental functions, this was a missed educational opportunity. 
Another conclusion one could draw is that there seem to be no "cures” for neurological problems 
involving music. A drug can alleviate a symptom in one patient and aggravate it in another, or can have both 
positive and negative effects in the same patient. Treatments mentioned seem to be almost exclusively 
antiepileptic medications, which “damp down” the excitability of the brain in general; their effectiveness 
varies widely. 
Finally, in many of the cases described here the patient with music brain symptoms is reported to 
have “normal” EEG results. Although Sacks recognizes the existence of new technologies, among them far 
more sensitive ways to analyze brain waves than the standard neurological EEG test, he does not call 
for their use. In fact, although he exhibits the greatest com-passion for patients, he conveys no sense of 
urgency about the pursuit of new avenues in the diagnosis and treatment of music-brain disorders. This 
absence echoes the hook’s preface, in which Sacks expresses fear that “the simple art of observation may be 
lost” if we rely too much on new technologies. He does call for both approaches, though, and we can only 
hope that the neuro logical community will respond.