Pippa Roberts
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Cheltenham, The United Kingdom
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“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
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“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous
― Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous
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“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.”
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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
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Discussion about the fascinating stories of our scientific and medical past
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This is a group for readers to recommend and discuss books related to real and/or artificial brains. Categories include but are not limited to: neuros ...more
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I was trying to decide if I would rather start a group about books, coffee, songs, or Ireland; so I decided to make one big random group about all of ...more
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