My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor

My Stroke of Insight

Jill Bolte Taylor

184 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction memoir psychology science emotional medium-paced

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On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she ob...

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