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My Stroke of Insight Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

My Stroke of Insight By Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.


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The astonishing international bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment.

My Stroke of Insight Summary

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

'A unique insight into human consciousness and its possibilities' The Times

'Incredible' New Scientist

'This book is important for everyone . . . I love this book' Oprah Winfrey

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.

My Stroke of Insight Reviews

This book is important for everyone . . . I love this book * Oprah Winfrey *
This book is important for everyone . . . I love this book * Oprah Winfrey *
A unique insight into human consciousness and its possibilities * The Times *
the incredible story of the neuroscientist who rebuilt her own mind after suffering a severe stroke. * New Scientist *

About Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. is a neuroanatomist affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. She is the national spokesperson for the mentally ill at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Brain Bank) and the consulting neuroanatomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute.

Jill Bolte Taylor was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2008 and was part of Oprah Winfrey's Soul Series, where Oprah invites inspirational thinkers on to her show to talk about matters of the soul.

She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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NGR9780340980507
9780340980507
0340980508
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
New
Paperback
Hodder & Stoughton
2009-02-01
192
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