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    …mysterious form of paralysis in The Island of the Colorblind (1997). He presented further case studies in The Mind Traveler (1998), a program produced for television, and wrote of patients with conditions relating to music in Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007). The Mind’s Eye (2010) investigated the…

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