Showing posts with label Jill Bolte Taylor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jill Bolte Taylor. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2008

NueroAnatomist: Jill Bolte Taylor

Well, this post has nothing to do with marketing. I just felt like sharing this video I encountered some time ago.
Jill Bolte Taylor is a nueroanatomist who devoted her life in studying about schizoprenia and other disorders of the brain.
Listen to her talk in this video (just click this link) http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229
A Brief Account of her story:
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