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.)
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fantastic!
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.
Its a very inspiring courageous explanations by the sufferer herself.
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