My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey Overview
In 1996, 37-year-old neuroanatomist Taylor experienced a massive stroke that erased her abilities to walk, talk, do mathematics, read, or remember details. Her remarkable story details her slow recovery of those abilities (and the cultivation of new ones) and recounts exactly what happened with her brain. Read proficiently by the author, this is a fascinating memoir of the brain's remarkable resiliency and of one woman's determination to regain her faculties and recount her experience for the benefit of others. Taylor repeatedly describes her "stroke of insight"-a tremendous gratitude for, and connection with, the cells of her body and of every living thing-and says that although she is fully recovered, she is not the same driven, type-A scientist that she was before the stroke. Her holistic approach to healing will be valuable to stroke survivors and their caregivers, who can pick up suggestions from Taylor's moving accounts of how her mother faithfully loved her back to life. A Viking hardcover.
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey Review
If you are caring for a person who had a stroke, whether it is your own friend or family member or you are caring for stroke patients in some sort of nursing capacity--you MAY be able to make a world of difference in their life by reading this book. If you do nothing else, at least look at the list that this fully recovered stroke victim AND brain scientist added to the back of the book. It could greatly enhance your ability to help them recover more fully.
In fact, I have a feeling that you will hope (as I did) that IF you ever become the patient, that whoever ends up caring for you will also have read it!!! Very, important and helpful insights.
The book itself is great. I've always found the brain to be a fascinating thing--what we perceive as reality, what makes us different from each other and what makes us human. On that level, it was also extremely interesting. In fact (and this sounds a little strange), it made me less afraid of dying someday. It is actually a hopeful book that makes you realize that our brain is so busy making sense of everything and taking care of "ourself" that we are actually missing a great deal of what is really going on around us. This book brings home the reality that we are actually part of "everything" and always will be.
Excellent book. One that everyone really should read. Skip over the few boring parts--just keep reading and it may give you a new way of seeing things.
In fact, I have a feeling that you will hope (as I did) that IF you ever become the patient, that whoever ends up caring for you will also have read it!!! Very, important and helpful insights.
The book itself is great. I've always found the brain to be a fascinating thing--what we perceive as reality, what makes us different from each other and what makes us human. On that level, it was also extremely interesting. In fact (and this sounds a little strange), it made me less afraid of dying someday. It is actually a hopeful book that makes you realize that our brain is so busy making sense of everything and taking care of "ourself" that we are actually missing a great deal of what is really going on around us. This book brings home the reality that we are actually part of "everything" and always will be.
Excellent book. One that everyone really should read. Skip over the few boring parts--just keep reading and it may give you a new way of seeing things.
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