We may see very clearly how the wrong sound, or “anti-music,” is pathogenic and migrainogenic; while the right sound – proper music – is truly tranquillising, and immediately restores cerebral health. These effects are striking, and quite fundamental, and put one in mind of Novalis’s aphorism: “Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
-Oliver Sacks
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