Kid Scientist » The Brain http://kidscientist.com The no-nonsense science blog for kids Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Musical Minds http://kidscientist.com/102/musical-minds/ http://kidscientist.com/102/musical-minds/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:07:07 +0000 carole http://kidscientist.com/?p=102 Related Posts No related posts. ]]> Oliver Sacks We can’t stop thinking about an episode of the PBS show “Nova” we watched a couple weeks ago called “Musical Minds”. Oliver Sacks is a famous neurologist, a doctor who specializes in treating the body’s brain and nervous system. In “Musical Minds”, he talked with a young autistic man who is a brilliant piano player, a man with Tourette Syndrome whose symptoms stop when he plays the drums, and a woman who just heard noise when someone played music for her. The coolest story was about the man who got hit by lightning and suddenly was able to play beautiful music for the first time in his life.

You can watch a video clip, read a transcript of the show, and see Dr. Sacks’ answers to viewer questions on PBS.org, a great site for kid scientists to get information!

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