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Narrator
Jill Bolte Taylor
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Length
5 hours 43 minutes
Language
English
The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment.
On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life—all within four hours—Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost. It would take her eight years to fully recover.
For Taylor, her stroke was a blessing and a revelation. It taught her that by "stepping to the right" of our left brains, we can uncover feelings of well-being that are often sidelined by "brain chatter." Reaching wide audiences through her talk at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference and her appearance on Oprah's online Soul Series, Taylor provides a valuable recovery guide for those touched by brain injury and an inspiring testimony that inner peace is accessible to anyone.
Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist who teaches at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Bloomington, Indiana. She is the national spokesperson for the mentally ill for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Brain Bank) and the consulting neuroantomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute. Since 1993 she has been an active member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Her story has been featured on the PBS program Understanding Amazing Brain, among others. She was interviewed on NPR’s The Infinite Mind and ABC News, and was named one of the 100 of the World’s Most Influential People of 2008 by Time magazine.
Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist who teaches at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Bloomington, Indiana. She is the national spokesperson for the mentally ill for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Brain Bank) and the consulting neuroantomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute. Since 1993 she has been an active member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Her story has been featured on the PBS program Understanding Amazing Brain, among others. She was interviewed on NPR’s The Infinite Mind and ABC News, and was named one of the 100 of the World’s Most Influential People of 2008 by Time magazine.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Jill Bolte Taylor
ISBN:
9781429526593
Length:
5 hours 43 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication date:
July 3, 2008
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#21,724 Overall
Genre rank:
#174 in Medicine
Reviews
"Transformative...[Taylor's] experience...will shatter [your] own perception of the world."-ABC News
"[Dr. Taylor] brings a deep personal understanding to something she long studied: that the two lobes of the brain have very different personalities."
-The New York Times
"Fascinating...invaluable...fearless...This book is about the wonder of being human."
-Robert Koehler, Tribune Media Services Expand reviews
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