My Stroke of Insight A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Name: My Stroke of Insight A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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ISBN: 9780452295544

ISBN-10: 0452295548

ISBN-13: 9780452295544

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Authors: Jill Bolte Taylor, Jill Bolte Taylor

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The astonishing New York Timesbestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist’s own stroke led to enlightenment On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life—all within four hours—Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.26" wide x 7.90" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Heart to Heart, Brain to Brain



Jill's Pre-Stroke Life



Simple Science



Hemispheric Asymmetries



Morning of the Stroke



Orchestrating My Reduce



My Return to the Still



Bare to the Bone



Neurological Intensive Care



Day Two: The Morning After



Day Three: G.G. Comes to Town



Healing and Preparing for Surgery



Stereotactic Craniotomy



What I Needed the Most



Milestones for Recovery



My Stroke of Insight



My Right and Left Minds



Own Your Power



Cells and Multidimensional Circuitry



Finding Your Deep Inner Peace



Tending the Garden


Resources


Recommendation for Recovery


Appendix A


Appendix B


The Harvard Brian Bank


Index