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30 January 2008

An argument for music therapy

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more – it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

-Oliver Sachs, Neurologist and author of Music and the Brain