The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

there are other senses -­ secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -­ equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can