Jill Bolte Taylor: Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions: motion, speech, self-awareness shut down one by one.
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ABOUT Jill Bolte Taylor
“One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realised she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. Amazed to find herself alive, Jill spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk.
She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the ‘Singin’ Scientist’.”
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