My Stroke of Insight A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
ISBN:
0780452395
Publish date: June 2009
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 187
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Book Club,
Biology,
Health,
Medical,
Biography Memoir,
Spirituality,
Neuroscience,
Brain
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
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