There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.