My stroke of insight : a brain scientist's personal journey / Jill Bolte Taylor.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Viking, 2008, c2006.Edition: 1st Viking edDescription: 183 p : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780670020744
- 0670020745
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Sonoma Academy Library | 362.1968 TAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 500978 |
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362.196 AMM Lethal decisions : | 362.196 GRE Autobiography of a face / | 362.196 WOR TRIGGERED: A MEMOIR OF OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER | 362.1968 TAY My stroke of insight : | 362.1969 PAT Truth & beauty : | 362.19697 SCH A list of things that didn't kill me : | 362.1987 COP The Waiting Period |
Jill's pre-stroke life -- Simple science -- Hemispheric asymmetries -- Morning of the stroke -- Orchestrating my rescue -- My return to the still -- Bare to the bone -- Neurological intensive care -- Day two: the morning after -- Day three: G.G. comes to town -- Healing and preparing for surgery -- Stereotactic craniotomy -- What I needed the most -- Milestones for recovery -- My stroke of insight -- My right and left minds -- Own your power -- Cells and multidimensional circuitry -- Finding your deep inner peace -- Tending the garden.
On the morning of December 10, 1996, Taylor, a brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke. She observed her own mind completely deteriorate. Now she shares her unique perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery.
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