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Mar13
Brain Scientist Reports on Her Own Stroke

When Harvard educated brain scientist … Dr. Jill Taylor woke up with a headache from a stroke in progress … very little of her training helped.

Check out this 18 minute video to discover fascinating details of the brain’s magic on one hand … and a stroke’s deadly danger … on the other.
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Using a real human brain to show the differences between the right and left hemispheres … Dr Taylor described how she watched her own brain completely deteriorate and shut down.

New understanding of the euphoria that follows when one is left with only right brain functions … sheds light on the reason it took the 37 year old brain scientist eight years to recover from this debilitating stroke.

Dr. Taylor tried to call in to work and could not remember the number. Have you thought about what you’d do if you suffered a stroke? Could you stop a stroke in action?

 

Thanks to Ed Brenegar at Leading Questions for alerting me to this breaking story.    


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Thanks, Ellen (and Ed) for the heads up on this one; it looks to be a fascinating video.

Hello Ellen:

This is interesting. The left hemisphere of my brain wants to ask you whether the left or right brain hemisphere was driving her presentation.

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