My Stroke of Insight

ISBN-13: 9780340980507 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 183 str.

Ph. D. Jill Bolte Taylor

Opis

On the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind deteriorate to the point that she lost the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. This book tells of her experiences.

Recenzje

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O autorze

Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. is a neuroanatomist affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. She is the national spokesperson for the mentally ill at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Brain Bank) and the consulting neuroanatomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute.

Jill Bolte Taylor was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2008 and was part of Oprah Winfrey's Soul Series, where Oprah invites inspirational thinkers on to her show to talk about matters of the soul.

She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.