Stroke of Insight. Jill Bolte Taylor
Description
At the age of 37, Dr. Jill Bolte suffered a massive stroke that took eight years to recover from. This experience has informed her work as a neuroanatomist - a brain anatomy scientist - and led her to start Jill Bolte Taylor Brains, Inc. In this ABC News report, Dr. Bolte discusses her book My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Experience and what the stroke taught her about the workings of the human brain.
Runtime
9 min
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Date of Publication
[2013], c2008
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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