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My Stroke of Insight A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

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ISBN-10: 0670020745

ISBN-13: 9780670020744

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jill Bolte Taylor, Jill Taylor

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A brain scientists journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploration of human consciousness and its possibilities On the morning of December 10, 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 could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four brief hours. As the damaged left side of her brain the rational, grounded, detail and time-oriented side swung in and out of function, Taylor alternated…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 5/12/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist who teaches at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Bloomington, Indiana. She is the National Spokesperson for the Mentally Ill for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Brain Bank) and the Consulting Neuroantomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute. Since 1993 she has been an active member of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). Her story has been featured on the PBS program Understanding Amazing Brain, among others. She was interviewed on NPR�s Infinite Mind and ABC News, and was named one of The 100 of the World�s Most Influential People of 2008 in Time Magazine.

Jill's Pre-Stroke Life
Simple Science
Hemispheric Asymmetries
Morning of the Stroke
Orchestrating My Rescue
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
Recommendations for Recovery
Ten Assessment Questions
Forty Things I Needed Most
The Harvard Brain Bank