#1-2 Brain Stroke

Jill Bolte Taylor (born 1959) is a neuroanatomist who specializes in the postmortem investigation of the human brain. She is affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine, is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center, and is the consulting neuroanatomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute. Her own personal experience with a massive stroke, experienced in 1996 at age 37, and her subsequent eight-year recovery, has informed her work as a scientist and speaker. For this work, in May 2008 she was named to Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. "My Stroke of Insight" received the top "Books for a Better Life" Book Award in the Science category from the New York City Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society on February 23, 2009 in New York City.

On December 10, 1996, Taylor woke up to discover that she was experiencing a rare form of stroke, an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Three weeks later, on December 27, 1996, she underwent major brain surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to remove a golf ball-sized hemorrhage that was placing pressure on the language centers in the left hemisphere of her brain.

Taylor's February 2008 TED Conference talk about her memory of the stroke became an Internet sensation, resulting in widespread attention and interest around the world and an interview with Oprah Winfrey.

Taylor has written a best-selling book, published by Viking in 2008, called My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey, about her recovery from the stroke and the insights she has gained into the workings of her brain. Viking president Clare Ferraro won rights to publish the memoir in an intense auction conducted by literary agent and intellectual property attorney Ellen Stiefler of the Transmedia Agency, and Viking rushed the previously self-published book into hardcover to capitalize on Taylors rapidly rising profile.

Taylor was the first guest featured on Oprah's Soul Series webcast on Oprah.com and Satellite radio show starting May 12; Winfrey had been discussing Taylor with Eckhart Tolle during webinars for Oprah's Book Club about A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle's bestselling book. Taylor appeared on the Oprah Show on October 21, 2008.

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[aussietangolover]

Seeing this changed my life forever. I too had a very similar experience 7 years before seeing this .... But never had any medical treatment. After watching this I was truly able to begin my road to understanding & recovery.

[MrKaiake]

It´s my favorite video!

[Lanceshizzy]

i was eating breakfast... :S

[presencia1]

thank you very much por posting, is amazing

[ThePhoenixGate]

I saw this for the first time about 6 months ago. Thank you so much for posting this!

[Iamare]

Thank you for sharing. You are A-mazing!