My Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor, 2009, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
neuroscience
Transformative…[Taylor’s] experience…will shatter [your] own perception of the world.
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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 lost.
It would take her eight years to fully recover.