My Stroke of Insight (Second-Hand Book)
On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life within four hours-Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognised she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost. It would take her eight years to fully recover.
Author: Jill Bolte Taylor
