My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor is "a brain scientist personal journal." Jill Bolte Taylor is an American neuroanatomist who suffered a stroke in 1996. She is a thirty-seven year old Harvard graduate who had a very personal experience with deterioration of her own brain. Though many people experience such an unfortunate event, its a very eye opening experience when reading it from the point of view of someone who has studied the brain. Currently I have not started the book, but I did buy it. When reading this I will pay attention to how she writes compared to Oliver Sacks. He wrote case studies, while she is writing a personal journal. Some may wonder how life changing this experience was for Taylor; in which she would respond:
“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.”
Currently we are fortunate enough to have her still with us, unlike Oliver Sacks, here you can see her Ted Talk:
https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight
This book will help reveal the terminology and writing style behind Neuroscience literature.
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