My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Taylor, Jill Bolte

ISBN 10: 0670020745 / ISBN 13: 9780670020744

Editore: Viking Adult, 2008

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Riassunto:

A brain scientists recounts her experiences after suffering a stroke at the age of thirty-seven, describing her discovery of differences in the left and right side of the brain and the steps she took over a period of eight years to recover her health.

Informazioni sull'autore: Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. is a neuroanatomist who is affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. She is the national spokesperson for the mentally ill at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Brain Bank) and the consulting neuroantomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute (MPRI). Since 1993 she has been an active member of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). She was named one of Time magazineÂ’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2008.

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Titolo: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's ...
Casa editrice: Viking Adult
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: Includes dust jacket.