II. Post 6B

The main point of part II of Dr. Oliver Sacks' Musicophilia is that so many people have differently structured brains, and it makes Musical hallucenations sometimes hard to track over large groups of people. For example, Sacks wrote about the proven study that professional musicians have differently structured brains than a nonmusical or averagely musical person.
He also brings up the recently coined term, "dystimbria," and describes it as "a distant form of amusia that may coexist with defective pitch discrimination or occur on its own" (Sacks 108). In fact, the term is only known by certain members of the medical world, and is so new that no definition for the words exists on either dictionary.com or google: define. I wanted to learn more about it, so I checked these sites and learned that the word didn't even officially exist. I found a short discussion of it, though, on an obscure website about music and the brain. It made me realize how new the topic of music is to the medical world. It was recently added to the category of neurology, due to its relevance in the brain, and the fact that it relates to conciousness is a complete mind blow to many educated people. It seems like much will be discovered for the topic of Musicophilia in the future.