This is a fascinating story. You will never think of right brain, left brain, and ideas of self & world, in the same way again:
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
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3 comments:
this was fantastic. thanks for sharing it.
K: Glad you liked it.
I should have credited John Mifsud for first sending the link to me.
Oh, I think that's the woman who spoke on our campus several months ago. It sounded really interesting, but I had something else going on that night and couldn't make it.
The brain is an amazing thing!
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