Oliver Sacks.

"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 Sacks, neurologist and author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, courtesy of my Starbucks cup.)

So true.

I think I might look into the books. The brain is fascinating, and I am always amazed to learn more about it. Like synaesthesia, where you might see, feel, and/or taste colors - how incredible!