Sunday, November 9, 2008

Stroke of Genius

Here's an extremely interesting video...

A talk given by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroscientist who suffered a stroke and lived to tell about the experience. As she explains, "It's not often a brain expert undergoes such an ordeal and gets to describe the situation from the inside out."



Taylor provides a fascinating recount of the event, and in the process, offers a wonderful primer of how the brain works--right and left hemispheres, language centers, and more.

The end gets a little emotional, the tone shifting from the scientific to the spiritual. Caught me a bit off guard as it started out so clinically, but fascinating nonetheless.

(Thanks to Anil Mehta for pointing it out.)

3 comments:

megha joshi said...

fantastic!

Steven Rudolph said...

Yeah, I liked the explanation of the right brain "here and now" vs. the left brain "past and future".

It's an entertaining explanation--I've found that there are few people capable of taking complex neurological topics and making them so accessible.

Interest said...

Its a very inspiring courageous explanations by the sufferer herself.