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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor (Hardcover, 2008)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
ISBN-139780340980484
eBay Product ID (ePID)88702631
Product Key Features
Book TitleMy Stroke of Insight: a Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
AuthorJill Bolte Taylor
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicMemorials, Coping with Illness
Publication Year2008
Number of Pages192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height205mm
Item Width134mm
Item Weight310g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJill Bolte Taylor
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 20 Sep, 2017
Straight forward a real insight into strokes
Really interesting read helped me to understand what my dad went through with his stroke a must have/read for anyone trying to understand strokes either as a stroke survivor or a confused loved one of a stroke patientVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
