An insider to a stroke, Jill has given a fascinating insider review of what happens when brain suffers.
What happens when a Brain Scientist suffers a brain damage due to a stroke? Write a book about it and bring others into said quirky brain of course :D
37 year old research scientist experiences an AVM-type stroke and lives to recover (over the course of 8 years) and write about. Fascinating first-person account, and rather heavy on the right-brain preference after the stroke.The most interesting chapters to me were about her experience of the stro...
This book was difficult to review. On one hand parts of the book are really well done, but the other parts are very poor. So how to you rate the whole thing?The excellent portion of this book had to do with the documentation of the stroke the author suffered at 37. Being a brain scientist by prof...
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor: The Missing Disclaimer
The 37-year old Dr. Taylor, a neuroscientist, was simultaneously horrified and fascinated to realize that she was having a stroke. Though many reviewers and interviewers focus on the insights she gained from her stroke, I was riveted by her descriptions of the physiological and behavioral processes ...
This was a very interesting book about how different out left and right brains are and still able to work together.
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