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Editorial
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In October 2006, we published a remarkable personal account of acquired amusia with recovery written by a member of that elite band of neurologists who are also competent musicians. Sadly, that was to be the last of his many Brain papers that Ian McDonald read in print. Commenting on the account, Oliver Sacks drew attention to ‘its candour and depth, its narrative force and its self analysis ... how precious such accounts are when they come from physician-patients’; and Jason Warren writing on the disordered musical emotion Professor McDonald described, suggested that ‘the affective response hints at ... processing that ... depend(s) on ... mechanisms in the parietal lobe’. Now, in ‘Another musical mystery tour’, Jason Warren reviews Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks and This is your brain on music by Daniel Levitin sidestepping the trap that to write ‘about musical experience is like dancing about architecture’ by finessing the new
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