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.

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

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

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

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.