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Book Synopsis''A unique insight into human consciousness and its possibilities'' The Times
''Incredible'' New Scientist
''This book is important for everyone . . . I love this book'' Oprah Winfrey
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 observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she lost the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four hours. As the damaged left side of her brain - the rational, logical, detail and time-oriented side - swung in an out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realities: the euphoric Nirvana of the intuitive and emotional right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace; and the logical lef
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This book is important for everyone . . . I love this book * Oprah Winfrey *
This book is important for everyone . . . I love this book * Oprah Winfrey *
A unique insight into human consciousness and its possibilities * The Times *
the incredible story of the neuroscientist who rebuilt her own mind after suffering a severe stroke. * New Scientist *
