My stroke of insight, brain maker and my year off 3 books collection set

by Jill Bolte Taylor, David Perlmutter, Robert McCrum

My stroke of insight, brain maker and my year off 3 books collection set. Description:- My Stroke of Insight: 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. Brain Maker: Debilitating brain disorders are on the rise - from children diagnosed with autism and ADHD to adults developing dementia at younger ages than ever before. But a medical revolution is underway that can solve this problem. My Year Off: My brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I? Robert McCrum was forty-two when he suffered a massive stroke which left one side of his body totally paralysed, his speech drastically impaired, and his sense of himself radically altered.

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About the author

Jill Bolte Taylor is an American neuroanatomist, author, and public speaker. Her training is in the postmortem investigation of the human brain as it relates to schizophrenia and the severe mental illnesses. She founded the nonprofit Jill Bolte Taylor Brains, Inc., she is affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine, and she is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center.

Bolte Taylor's personal experience with a massive stroke, experienced in 1996 at the age of 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 2008 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1] "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.

Reviews

[Geert Goessaert · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought the book ('My stroke of insight', not the other books) in a secondhand bookshop, a lucky impulse buy. Funny enough I knew the author through her Ted Talk, which has had more than a million views. The book is equally fascinating as the talk, but as books go, much more detailed and interesting, and full of insights (!) like this one: "Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think".