Interesting story "My stroke of insight" by a neuroanatomist [Video Link]

[Trixxxia]

Why you should listen to her:
One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness ...
Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the "Singin' Scientist."
"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."
Jill Bolte Taylor


Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

Hope it hasn't been posted before.

[Jdoughs]

That was an excellent talk. To hear someone educated enough about the brain to actually document and recall what was happening during their own stroke was quite interesting.

And anyone who is interested in other forms of consciousness would surely have or see lightbulbs going off listening to her speak about the times her left hemisphere disconnected.

[donnylong]

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