On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte
Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain
scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded
in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she
observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she
lost the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her
life, all within the space of four hours. As the damaged left side
of her brain - the rational, logical, detail and time-oriented side
- swung in an out of function, Taylor alternated between two
distinct and opposite realities: the euphoric Nirvana of the
intuitive and emotional right brain, in which she felt a sense of
complete well-being and peace; and the logical left brain, that
realized Jill was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help
before she was lost completely. In My Stroke of Insight: A Brain
Scientist's Personal Journey, Taylor brings to light a new
perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery that she
gained through the intimate experience of awakening her own injured
mind. The journey to recovery took eight years for Jill to feel
completely healed.
Using her knowledge of how the brain works, her respect for the
cells composing her human form, and an amazing mother, Taylor
completely repaired her mind and recalibrated her understanding of
the world according to the insight gained from her right brain that
December morning.
PUBLICATION DATE: March 2009
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My Stroke of Insight |
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