“How many brain
scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I've gotten
as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire
academic career.”
— Jill Bolte Taylor
From TED talks:
Brain researcher
Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened — and has become a
powerful voice for brain recovery.
One morning, a blood
vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she
realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as
her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory,
self-awareness ...
Amazed to find herself
alive, Taylor 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."
Elephant
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