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My Stroke of Insight

by Jill Bolte Taylor

  • FINISHED
  • Finished April 2016
  • First published 2008

neurology stroke memoir

A Harvard-trained neuroanatomist describes the morning a stroke shut down the left side of her brain and the eight years of recovery that followed.   She explains what she noticed about perception, language and the sense of self.