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Sacks, the best-selling author of &#8220;Awakenings&#8221; and &#8220;The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,&#8221; was to share the church stage Saturday with the famed gospel choir as part of the inaugural World Science Festival, a five-day celebration of science taking place in <span id=\"lw_1212444356_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">New York<\/span> this week. &#8220;It should be an exciting and unusual event,&#8221; Sacks said in an interview this week. &#8220;I will talk about the therapeutic and beneficent power of music as a physician, and then their wonderful choir will perform. &#8230; And the audience will make what they can of it.&#8221; &#8220;Even with advanced dementia, when powers of memory and language are lost, people will respond to music,&#8221; he said. But the central role of music in church makes Abyssinian a good place to discuss the myriad ways that music affects the human brain, said Sacks, who was played by <span id=\"lw_1212444356_1\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Robin Williams<\/span> in the movie version of &#8220;Awakenings.&#8221; Abyssinian&#8217;s pastor, the Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, said the choir is looking forward to performing with Sacks. He noted that music plays a central role in the healing power of prayer. &#8220;What we have been studying &#8230; is that when you pray, there&#8217;s actually a physiological change in the body,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Music is very much a part of this. There are certain notes that generate in the human body a kind of peacefulness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem&#8217;s Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music. 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