"My Stroke of Insight"

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"My Stroke of Insight"
By Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.



http://www.amazon.com/My-Stroke-Insight-Scientists-Personal/dp/B004HEXSLI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330986258&sr=1-1

I was, by anyone's standard, no longer normal. In my own unique way, I has become severly mentally ill. And I must say, there was both freedom and challenge for me in recognizing that our perception of the external world, and our relationship to it, is a product of our neurological ciruitry. For all those years of my life, I really had been a figment of my own imagination!

Jill Bolte Taylor (born 1959) is a neuroanatomist who specializes in the postmortem investigation of the human brain. She is affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine, is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center, and is the consulting neuroanatomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute. Her own personal experience with a massive stroke, experienced in 1996 at age 37, and her subsequent eight-year recovery, has informed her work as a scientist and speaker.[/size]