Full name: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Author: Jill Bolte Taylor Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Psychology, Health Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781430300618 9780452295544 1430300612 0452295548

Jill Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious scientist, she watched her mind deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Because of her understanding of the brain, her respect for the cells in her body, and an amazing mother, Jill completely recovered. In My Stroke of Insight, she shares her recommendations for recovery and the insight she gained into the unique functions of the two halves of her brain. When she lost the skills of her left brain, her consciousness shifted away from normal reality where she felt "at one with the universe." Taylor helps others not only rebuild their brains from trauma, but helps those of us with normal brains better understand how we can consciously influence the neural circuitry underlying what we think, how we feel and how we react to life's circumstances. Similar books: The Man Who Forgot How to Read by Howard Engel A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt Another Day in the Frontal Lobe by Katrina Firlik Unthinkable by Helen Thomson Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan When the Air Hits Your Brain by Frank Vertosick Jr. The Psychopath Inside by James Fallon The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain by Barbara Strauch The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean On Edge by Andrea Petersen Complications by Atul Gawande In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin Cracked by James Davies First Person Plural by Cameron West The Disordered Mind by Eric R. Kandel Switched On by John Elder Robison The Hacking of the American Mind by Robert H. Lustig Saving Normal by Allen Frances