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毓丕賱賲丞 丕賱賲禺 丿. 噩賷賱 亘賵賱鬲賷 鬲丕賷賱賵乇 丕氐賷亘鬲 亘噩賱胤丞 賮賷 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賲賳 丕賱賲禺 噩毓賱鬲賴丕 鬲賮賯丿 丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賰賱丕賲 賵鬲賮賯丿 丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲匕賰乇 賵賱賰賳賴丕 卮毓乇鬲 亘兀賳 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱兀賷賲賳 賲賳 丕賱賲禺 賰丕賳 胤亘賷毓賷丕 賵噩毓賱賴丕 鬲丿乇賰 賷賯馗丞 乇賵丨賷丞 兀丨爻鬲 賮賷賴丕 亘丕賱爻賰賷賳丞 賵丕賱爻賱丕賲 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷. 亘毓丿 爻賳賵丕鬲 丕爻鬲毓丕丿鬲 丿. 噩賷賱 丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賰賱丕賲 賵丕賱賱睾丞 賵賱賰賳賴丕 亘丿兀鬲 亘卮禺氐賷丞 噩丿賷丿丞 鬲賲丕賲丕. 廿賳賴丕 鬲丨賰賷 賱賳丕 毓賳 丕賱噩賱胤丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀賳丕乇鬲 亘氐賷乇鬲賴丕.
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.賲孬乇賷丞 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞 亘兀爻賱賵亘 賯氐氐賷 賲賲鬲毓貙 鬲兀禺匕 "噩賷賱 鬲賷賱賵乇" 丕賱賯丕乇賶亍 賮賷 乇丨賱鬲賴丕 丕賱睾乇丕卅亘賷丞 賲賳匕 氐亘丕丨 丕賱賷賵賲 丕賱匕賷 鬲毓乇囟鬲 賮賷賴 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 賱噩賱胤丞 丿賲丕睾賷丞 賲鬲鬲亘毓丞賸 賲毓賳丕 丕賱兀毓乇丕囟 賵丕賱賲卮丕毓乇 賱丨馗丞賸 亘賱丨馗丞 ! .
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About the author
Jill Bolte Taylor
43听books320听followersJill Bolte Taylor is an American neuroanatomist, author, and public speaker. Her training is in the postmortem investigation of the human brain as it relates to schizophrenia and the severe mental illnesses. She founded the nonprofit Jill Bolte Taylor Brains, Inc., she is affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine, and she is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center.
Bolte Taylor's personal experience with a massive stroke, experienced in 1996 at the age of 37, and her subsequent eight-year recovery, has informed her work as a scientist and speaker. For this work, in May 2008 she was named to Time Magazine's 2008 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1] "My Stroke of Insight" received the top "Books for a Better Life" Book Award in the Science category from the New York City Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society on February 23, 2009 in New York City.
Bolte Taylor's personal experience with a massive stroke, experienced in 1996 at the age of 37, and her subsequent eight-year recovery, has informed her work as a scientist and speaker. For this work, in May 2008 she was named to Time Magazine's 2008 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1] "My Stroke of Insight" received the top "Books for a Better Life" Book Award in the Science category from the New York City Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society on February 23, 2009 in New York City.
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September 20, 2008
Jill Bolte Tayor was a 37-year old neuroanatomist when she experienced a massive stroke that severely damaged the left hemisphere of her brain. My Stroke of Insight is her account of what happened that day, her subsequent 8-year recovery, and how these events changed her life for the better.
The most interesting part of the book for me was Bolte Taylor鈥檚 discussion of what happened to her on that morning in 1996. With her scientific background, Bolte Taylor was in a unique position to observe the progressive breakdown of her own functioning as the blood from her burst AVM spread throughout her brain. As new areas were affected, different functions were lost, and reading about her experience is a strange kind of real-world brain anatomy lesson.
A significant portion of this book is devoted to the process of Bolte Taylor鈥檚 recovery. She realized early on that the attitude and pacing of her caregivers made a big difference in how willing and able she was to respond, and she speaks in detail about what she, personally, found was most effective in helping her heal. There is some useful information in this section for those involved in stroke victim care.
What has catapulted this book onto the bestseller list, however, is the spiritual message underlying Bolte Taylor鈥檚 experience. When the language processing areas of her brain shut down, Bolte Taylor found herself bathed in a kind of peace and bliss that was previously unknown to her. With the section of her brain that controls physical boundaries offline, she felt fluid, open, and one with everything around her.
Bolte Taylor considers these experiences to be the result of her right brain suddenly being given the chance to run the show while her left brain was incapacitated. She speaks quite a bit about how she made a conscious decision during her recovery to retain access to these states and to keep these pathways open as she brought her left brain back online. In the latter section of the book, she offers a list of techniques she feels anyone can use to help open up pathways to the expanded capacities of their own right brains.
I learned a number of interesting things while reading this book, and there is no question that Bolte Taylor鈥檚 story is a very inspiring one. Ultimately, however, I was disappointed by a number of things about this book. To start, it would have benefited from better editing. Some sections are highly repetitive, I was confused about certain aspects of her level of functioning and recovery, and the flow of the narrative was very uneven. Hers is a great story, and good editing would have made that even more obvious.
My main criticism of this book, however there is a very sloppy blending of hard, scientific information about the brain with Bolte Taylor鈥檚 anecdotal experience and personal theories about what happened to her. It was not always obvious which was which, and I suspect many readers will be confused and assume her personal theories are more scientifically grounded than they actually are.
Though Bolte Taylor does not specifically mention religion in the book, her numerous allusions to prayer, visualization, energy, and oneness make it clear that she subscribes to a certain kind of belief system that her experiences are filtered through. While this is to be expected, her inability to see the contradictions in her beliefs was frustrating to me. For example, she speaks about how, after the stroke, she floated in a place of bliss, at one with everything. Yet just a few paragraphs earlier, she refers to a harried, inexperienced medical student as an 鈥渆nergy vampire.鈥� She does not address why her feelings of being at one with and connected to everything did not extend to this person. In addition, she is critical of how the judgmental function of the left brain keeps us shut down from the more expanded perspective of the right brain, yet doesn鈥檛 seem to notice her own preference for right-brain dominated experiences seems, well, kind of judgmental.
I鈥檝e had personal experiences of peace and bliss that are similar to what Bolte Taylor describes, so I can certainly understand her preference for them. I also think she gives some good advice to help people find those states themselves without having to have a stroke to get there. But I think this book would have been much more valuable had Bolte Taylor used her scientifically trained left-brain to more clearly separate her anecdotal experience and beliefs what science actually tells us about our fascinating brains.
The most interesting part of the book for me was Bolte Taylor鈥檚 discussion of what happened to her on that morning in 1996. With her scientific background, Bolte Taylor was in a unique position to observe the progressive breakdown of her own functioning as the blood from her burst AVM spread throughout her brain. As new areas were affected, different functions were lost, and reading about her experience is a strange kind of real-world brain anatomy lesson.
A significant portion of this book is devoted to the process of Bolte Taylor鈥檚 recovery. She realized early on that the attitude and pacing of her caregivers made a big difference in how willing and able she was to respond, and she speaks in detail about what she, personally, found was most effective in helping her heal. There is some useful information in this section for those involved in stroke victim care.
What has catapulted this book onto the bestseller list, however, is the spiritual message underlying Bolte Taylor鈥檚 experience. When the language processing areas of her brain shut down, Bolte Taylor found herself bathed in a kind of peace and bliss that was previously unknown to her. With the section of her brain that controls physical boundaries offline, she felt fluid, open, and one with everything around her.
Bolte Taylor considers these experiences to be the result of her right brain suddenly being given the chance to run the show while her left brain was incapacitated. She speaks quite a bit about how she made a conscious decision during her recovery to retain access to these states and to keep these pathways open as she brought her left brain back online. In the latter section of the book, she offers a list of techniques she feels anyone can use to help open up pathways to the expanded capacities of their own right brains.
I learned a number of interesting things while reading this book, and there is no question that Bolte Taylor鈥檚 story is a very inspiring one. Ultimately, however, I was disappointed by a number of things about this book. To start, it would have benefited from better editing. Some sections are highly repetitive, I was confused about certain aspects of her level of functioning and recovery, and the flow of the narrative was very uneven. Hers is a great story, and good editing would have made that even more obvious.
My main criticism of this book, however there is a very sloppy blending of hard, scientific information about the brain with Bolte Taylor鈥檚 anecdotal experience and personal theories about what happened to her. It was not always obvious which was which, and I suspect many readers will be confused and assume her personal theories are more scientifically grounded than they actually are.
Though Bolte Taylor does not specifically mention religion in the book, her numerous allusions to prayer, visualization, energy, and oneness make it clear that she subscribes to a certain kind of belief system that her experiences are filtered through. While this is to be expected, her inability to see the contradictions in her beliefs was frustrating to me. For example, she speaks about how, after the stroke, she floated in a place of bliss, at one with everything. Yet just a few paragraphs earlier, she refers to a harried, inexperienced medical student as an 鈥渆nergy vampire.鈥� She does not address why her feelings of being at one with and connected to everything did not extend to this person. In addition, she is critical of how the judgmental function of the left brain keeps us shut down from the more expanded perspective of the right brain, yet doesn鈥檛 seem to notice her own preference for right-brain dominated experiences seems, well, kind of judgmental.
I鈥檝e had personal experiences of peace and bliss that are similar to what Bolte Taylor describes, so I can certainly understand her preference for them. I also think she gives some good advice to help people find those states themselves without having to have a stroke to get there. But I think this book would have been much more valuable had Bolte Taylor used her scientifically trained left-brain to more clearly separate her anecdotal experience and beliefs what science actually tells us about our fascinating brains.
February 24, 2013
I'm a neurologist, so I approached this book from a different angle than most readers, I imagine.
In short, it was not what I expected. Although she was a neuroanatomist prior to the stroke, the book is not science-y at all. That is both good and bad.
The good:
A first-hand account of being afflicted by a brain bleed (with aphasia, or inability to produce language, and other losses of function) is priceless. In medicine, we have a great deal to learn from knowing what our patients are going through. She describes her route fantastically well, including her frustrations with the medical field. Her insights into how she feels, and what functions she lost (and gained!) from her stroke are excellent.
The bad:
Unfortunately, intertwined with her narrative is an explanation of how the brain works that is suspect, to be sure. She compartmentalizes "right brain, left brain" in a way that isn't accurate. She teaches a "this is what I felt, so this is what must be true" kind of doctrine, which is the kind of thing that can be incredibly misleading. She gets very metaphysical, and to me it seems like she takes her internal sensations as facts. Granted, she attests to not being particularly scientific anymore after her stroke, and this shines through.
All in all, I'd like to hear accounts of other left-brain stroke survivors, to see if they had similar experiences to her. I am curious whether all would have similarly nirvana-like, extrasensory perseptory, left-brain-is-evil ideas and experiences.
In short, it was not what I expected. Although she was a neuroanatomist prior to the stroke, the book is not science-y at all. That is both good and bad.
The good:
A first-hand account of being afflicted by a brain bleed (with aphasia, or inability to produce language, and other losses of function) is priceless. In medicine, we have a great deal to learn from knowing what our patients are going through. She describes her route fantastically well, including her frustrations with the medical field. Her insights into how she feels, and what functions she lost (and gained!) from her stroke are excellent.
The bad:
Unfortunately, intertwined with her narrative is an explanation of how the brain works that is suspect, to be sure. She compartmentalizes "right brain, left brain" in a way that isn't accurate. She teaches a "this is what I felt, so this is what must be true" kind of doctrine, which is the kind of thing that can be incredibly misleading. She gets very metaphysical, and to me it seems like she takes her internal sensations as facts. Granted, she attests to not being particularly scientific anymore after her stroke, and this shines through.
All in all, I'd like to hear accounts of other left-brain stroke survivors, to see if they had similar experiences to her. I am curious whether all would have similarly nirvana-like, extrasensory perseptory, left-brain-is-evil ideas and experiences.
November 18, 2020
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October 29, 2020
鬲噩乇亘丞 丕賳爻丕賳賷丞 乇丕卅毓丞 賱賱兀爻鬲丕匕丞 丕賱兀賰丕丿賷賲賷丞 賮賷 毓賱賲 丕賱兀毓氐丕亘
"噩賷賱 鬲賷賱賵乇" 丨賷孬 兀氐賷亘鬲 亘噩賱胤丞 丿賲丕睾賷丞 鬲賵賯賮 毓賱賶 廿孬乇賴丕 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賲賳 丕賱賲禺 貙 毓賳丿卅匕賺 丕賳賮氐賱鬲 毓賳 賲丿乇賰丕鬲 噩爻賲賴丕 丕賱毓賯賱賷丞 賵丕賱賵馗賷賮賷丞 貙 丕賳睾賲爻鬲 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 爻乇賲丿賷 賰賰賷賳賵賳丞 爻丕卅賱丞 賱賲 賷毓丿 賱丿賷賴丕 賲丕 賷賲賷夭賴丕 賲賳 丨丿賵丿 賲爻鬲賯賱丞 毓賳 丕賱兀禺乇賷賳 貙 賮賯丿鬲 丕賱賲賴丕乇丞 丕賱賱睾賵賷丞 貙 賱賲 鬲毓丿 鬲賲賷夭 丕賱兀氐賵丕鬲 賮賴賶 賱賷爻鬲 爻賵賶 囟噩賷噩丕賸 賲賮夭毓丕賸 貙 亘丕鬲鬲 毓丕噩夭丞 毓賳 鬲亘賷賳 丕賱兀卮賰丕賱 孬賱丕孬賷丞 丕賱兀亘毓丕丿 賵胤賲爻鬲 匕丕賰乇鬲賴丕 賮賷 睾賷丕賴亘 丕賱賳爻賷丕賳...
兀氐亘丨鬲 睾乇賷亘丞 毓賳 匕丕鬲賴丕 ..賲毓夭賵賱丞 賵賵丨賷丿丞 貙 賱丕 賷鬲賲賰賳 兀丨丿 賲賳 賯乇丕亍丞 匕賴賳賴丕....
" 兀乇噩賵賰 賷丕 毓馗賷賲 賷丕 賯丿賷乇 賱丕 鬲購胤賮賶亍 丨賷丕鬲賷.." 賴匕丕 賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 鬲乇丿丿賴 毓賱賶 賳賮爻賴丕 賲鬲卮亘孬丞 亘兀賴丿丕亘 丕賱丨賷丕丞 ...
亘毓丿 兀賳 禺囟毓鬲 賱毓賲賱賷丞 噩乇丕丨賷丞 貙 鬲兀鬲賷 賲乇丨賱丞 鬲賲丕孬賱賴丕 賱賱卮賮丕亍 賵丕賱匕賷 丕爻鬲睾乇賯 孬賲丕賳 爻賳賵丕鬲...賱賲 鬲賰賳 賱鬲爻鬲乇丿 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 丿賵賳 丕賱丿毓賲 賵丕賱丨亘 睾賷乇 丕賱賲卮乇賵胤賷賳 貙 噩賴丿賴丕 丕賱賲囟賳賷 賮賷 爻亘賷賱 丕爻鬲毓丕丿丞 賲乇賰夭 丕賱兀賳丕 賮賷 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 貙 賮鬲丨 賲賱賮丕鬲 噩丿賷丿丞 貙 丕爻鬲亘毓丕丿 丕賱賲賱賮丕鬲 丕賱爻賱亘賷丞 丕賱賯丿賷賲丞...
賵丕賰鬲卮丕賮 噩賵賴乇 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳 賲賳 丕賱賲禺 賵孬乇丕丐賴 亘丕賱爻賱丕賲 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 賵丕賱鬲毓丕胤賮 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳賷 貙 賱賯丿 丕賳丕乇鬲 丕賱噩賱胤丞 亘氐賷乇鬲賴丕 亘廿毓丕丿丞 亘賳丕亍 毓賯賱賴丕 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 亘丕賱丕乇鬲賰丕賳 毓賱賶 噩賵賴乇 匕丕賰 丕賱賮氐 賮賷 禺賱賯 賰賷賳賵賳丞 噩丿賷丿丞 鬲賳毓賲 亘丕賱乇丨丕亘丞 賵丕賱爻賱丕賲...
賱賯丿 丌孬乇鬲 "丕賱兀賳丕" 丕賱賰亘乇賶 亘賲丕 賷賲孬賱賴丕 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳 毓賱賶 "丕賱兀賳丕" 丕賱氐睾乇賶 賵丕賱鬲賷 賷賲孬賱賴丕 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賲賳 丕賱賲禺...
鬲乇丕賳丕 丕賱賶 丕賶 丨丿 賷賲賰賳賳丕 丕賱鬲丨賰賲 亘兀丿賲睾鬲賳丕 責 賵兀賳 賳賴賷賲賳 毓賱賶 賲丕 賷噩乇賷 亘丿丕禺賱賴丕 責責...
丕賳 賳賲賱賰 丕賱賯丿乇丞 亘鬲賮賵賷囟 丕賱爻賱胤丞 賱丕丨丿賶 丕賱賮氐賷賳 賱賷賯賵丿 丨賷丕鬲賳丕 責
賴賳丕賱賰 毓賱丕賯丞 鬲賳丕睾賲賷丞 亘賷賳 丕賱賮氐賷賳 賵賰賱 賲賳賴賲丕 賷賰賲賱 丕賱兀禺乇貙 賵賰賲 賳鬲賵賯 丿賵賲丕賸 賱禺賱賯 丨丕賱丞 賲賳 丕賱鬲賵丕夭賳 丕賱丕丿乇丕賰賷丞 亘賷賳賴賲丕 廿賱丕 兀賳賳丕 賳鬲乇賳丨 賲丕 亘賷賳 賴匕丕 賵匕丕賰 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 鬲賲囟賷 亘賳丕 賲丕 亘賷賳 丕賱賵毓賷 丕賱賲賮賰乇 "丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇" 賵丕賱賵毓賷 丕賱賮胤乇賷 "丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳" ...
兀禺賷乇丕賸 賱賯丿 賲賳丨賳丕 丕賱賱賴 毓夭 賵噩賱 賲賳丨丞 毓馗賷賲丞 賱賲爻丕毓丿鬲賳丕 賮賷 丕丿乇丕賰 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賲賳 丨賵賱賳丕 貙 賱賯丿 賲賳丨賳丕 丿賲丕睾丕賸 亘賲丕 賷鬲賲鬲毓 亘賴 賲賳 丕賱賱丿賵賳丞 賵丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕爻鬲毓丕丿丞 賵馗丕卅賮賴 丕賱賲賮賯賵丿丞 兀賳 賷賳噩賵 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 賲鬲睾賷乇 亘鬲睾賷賷乇 賳賮爻賴...
"噩賷賱 鬲賷賱賵乇" 丨賷孬 兀氐賷亘鬲 亘噩賱胤丞 丿賲丕睾賷丞 鬲賵賯賮 毓賱賶 廿孬乇賴丕 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賲賳 丕賱賲禺 貙 毓賳丿卅匕賺 丕賳賮氐賱鬲 毓賳 賲丿乇賰丕鬲 噩爻賲賴丕 丕賱毓賯賱賷丞 賵丕賱賵馗賷賮賷丞 貙 丕賳睾賲爻鬲 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 爻乇賲丿賷 賰賰賷賳賵賳丞 爻丕卅賱丞 賱賲 賷毓丿 賱丿賷賴丕 賲丕 賷賲賷夭賴丕 賲賳 丨丿賵丿 賲爻鬲賯賱丞 毓賳 丕賱兀禺乇賷賳 貙 賮賯丿鬲 丕賱賲賴丕乇丞 丕賱賱睾賵賷丞 貙 賱賲 鬲毓丿 鬲賲賷夭 丕賱兀氐賵丕鬲 賮賴賶 賱賷爻鬲 爻賵賶 囟噩賷噩丕賸 賲賮夭毓丕賸 貙 亘丕鬲鬲 毓丕噩夭丞 毓賳 鬲亘賷賳 丕賱兀卮賰丕賱 孬賱丕孬賷丞 丕賱兀亘毓丕丿 賵胤賲爻鬲 匕丕賰乇鬲賴丕 賮賷 睾賷丕賴亘 丕賱賳爻賷丕賳...
兀氐亘丨鬲 睾乇賷亘丞 毓賳 匕丕鬲賴丕 ..賲毓夭賵賱丞 賵賵丨賷丿丞 貙 賱丕 賷鬲賲賰賳 兀丨丿 賲賳 賯乇丕亍丞 匕賴賳賴丕....
" 兀乇噩賵賰 賷丕 毓馗賷賲 賷丕 賯丿賷乇 賱丕 鬲購胤賮賶亍 丨賷丕鬲賷.." 賴匕丕 賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 鬲乇丿丿賴 毓賱賶 賳賮爻賴丕 賲鬲卮亘孬丞 亘兀賴丿丕亘 丕賱丨賷丕丞 ...
亘毓丿 兀賳 禺囟毓鬲 賱毓賲賱賷丞 噩乇丕丨賷丞 貙 鬲兀鬲賷 賲乇丨賱丞 鬲賲丕孬賱賴丕 賱賱卮賮丕亍 賵丕賱匕賷 丕爻鬲睾乇賯 孬賲丕賳 爻賳賵丕鬲...賱賲 鬲賰賳 賱鬲爻鬲乇丿 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 丿賵賳 丕賱丿毓賲 賵丕賱丨亘 睾賷乇 丕賱賲卮乇賵胤賷賳 貙 噩賴丿賴丕 丕賱賲囟賳賷 賮賷 爻亘賷賱 丕爻鬲毓丕丿丞 賲乇賰夭 丕賱兀賳丕 賮賷 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 貙 賮鬲丨 賲賱賮丕鬲 噩丿賷丿丞 貙 丕爻鬲亘毓丕丿 丕賱賲賱賮丕鬲 丕賱爻賱亘賷丞 丕賱賯丿賷賲丞...
賵丕賰鬲卮丕賮 噩賵賴乇 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳 賲賳 丕賱賲禺 賵孬乇丕丐賴 亘丕賱爻賱丕賲 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 賵丕賱鬲毓丕胤賮 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳賷 貙 賱賯丿 丕賳丕乇鬲 丕賱噩賱胤丞 亘氐賷乇鬲賴丕 亘廿毓丕丿丞 亘賳丕亍 毓賯賱賴丕 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 亘丕賱丕乇鬲賰丕賳 毓賱賶 噩賵賴乇 匕丕賰 丕賱賮氐 賮賷 禺賱賯 賰賷賳賵賳丞 噩丿賷丿丞 鬲賳毓賲 亘丕賱乇丨丕亘丞 賵丕賱爻賱丕賲...
賱賯丿 丌孬乇鬲 "丕賱兀賳丕" 丕賱賰亘乇賶 亘賲丕 賷賲孬賱賴丕 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳 毓賱賶 "丕賱兀賳丕" 丕賱氐睾乇賶 賵丕賱鬲賷 賷賲孬賱賴丕 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賲賳 丕賱賲禺...
鬲乇丕賳丕 丕賱賶 丕賶 丨丿 賷賲賰賳賳丕 丕賱鬲丨賰賲 亘兀丿賲睾鬲賳丕 責 賵兀賳 賳賴賷賲賳 毓賱賶 賲丕 賷噩乇賷 亘丿丕禺賱賴丕 責責...
丕賳 賳賲賱賰 丕賱賯丿乇丞 亘鬲賮賵賷囟 丕賱爻賱胤丞 賱丕丨丿賶 丕賱賮氐賷賳 賱賷賯賵丿 丨賷丕鬲賳丕 責
賴賳丕賱賰 毓賱丕賯丞 鬲賳丕睾賲賷丞 亘賷賳 丕賱賮氐賷賳 賵賰賱 賲賳賴賲丕 賷賰賲賱 丕賱兀禺乇貙 賵賰賲 賳鬲賵賯 丿賵賲丕賸 賱禺賱賯 丨丕賱丞 賲賳 丕賱鬲賵丕夭賳 丕賱丕丿乇丕賰賷丞 亘賷賳賴賲丕 廿賱丕 兀賳賳丕 賳鬲乇賳丨 賲丕 亘賷賳 賴匕丕 賵匕丕賰 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 鬲賲囟賷 亘賳丕 賲丕 亘賷賳 丕賱賵毓賷 丕賱賲賮賰乇 "丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇" 賵丕賱賵毓賷 丕賱賮胤乇賷 "丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳" ...
兀禺賷乇丕賸 賱賯丿 賲賳丨賳丕 丕賱賱賴 毓夭 賵噩賱 賲賳丨丞 毓馗賷賲丞 賱賲爻丕毓丿鬲賳丕 賮賷 丕丿乇丕賰 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賲賳 丨賵賱賳丕 貙 賱賯丿 賲賳丨賳丕 丿賲丕睾丕賸 亘賲丕 賷鬲賲鬲毓 亘賴 賲賳 丕賱賱丿賵賳丞 賵丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕爻鬲毓丕丿丞 賵馗丕卅賮賴 丕賱賲賮賯賵丿丞 兀賳 賷賳噩賵 賮賷 毓丕賱賲 賲鬲睾賷乇 亘鬲睾賷賷乇 賳賮爻賴...
August 28, 2024
丨丕夭 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱兀賵賱 賲賳 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 毓賱賶 廿毓噩丕亘賷貙 亘賷賳賲丕 兀孬丕乇 丕賱鬲賰乇丕乇 賵毓丿賲 鬲乇鬲賷亘 爻賷丕賯 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱孬丕賳賷 賲賱賱賷 賵鬲卮鬲鬲賷.
賰賲丕 賷亘丿賵 賲賳 丕賱毓賳賵丕賳貙 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賴賵 丨賰賷 賱鬲噩乇亘丞 丕賱賲丐賱賮丞 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賮賷 丕賱丕氐丕亘丞 亘噩賱胤丞 賮賷 丕賱賲禺. 賵賰賵賳 丕賱賲丐賱賮丞 毓丕賱賲丞 賮賷 賵馗丕卅賮 丕賱賲禺 噩毓賱賴丕 賯丕丿乇丞 亘卮賰賱 兀賮囟賱 毓賱賶 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱鬲丿賴賵乇 賱賵馗丕卅賮 匕賱賰 丕賱毓賯賱 亘毓丿 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賵亘毓丿 丕賱噩乇丕丨丞 賮賷 丕賱賲禺 丕賱鬲賷 鬲亘毓鬲賴丕.
毓賳丿賲丕 賳賮賯丿 卮賷卅丕賸 噩賵賴乇賷丕賸貙 賳睾乇賯 賮賷 丨爻乇丞 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 "賯亘賱 丕賱賰丕乇孬丞/亘毓丿 丕賱賰丕乇孬丞"貙 賵賱賰賳 丕賱賲丐賱賮丞 賴賳丕 賱賲 鬲丿毓 賱賳賮爻賴丕 賮乇氐丞 丕賱睾乇賯 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱丿賵丕賲丞 丕賱賷丕卅爻丞. 賵亘賮囟賱 丿毓賲 兀賲賴丕 丕賱賯賵賷 賱賴丕貙 丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲 亘毓丿 賲乇賵乇 爻賳賵丕鬲 丕賱毓賵丿丞 亘毓賯賱賴丕-賵賱賵 亘卮賰賱 噩夭卅賷-廿賱賶 賲丕 賰丕賳 毓賱賷賴 賯亘賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱丨丕丿孬.
兀爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賱賯賵賱 亘兀賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賱賲 賷乇賯 廿賱賶 賲爻鬲賵賶 鬲賵賯毓丕鬲賷. 賮賲丿賶 丕賱丨賰丕賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 丕毓鬲賲丿鬲 毓賱賷賴丕 丕賱賲丐賱賮丞 賴賵 賲丿賶 卮丿賷丿 丕賱賲丨丿賵丿賷丞. 賰丕賳鬲 乇賵丕賷鬲賴丕 賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賷賵賲 丨丿賵孬 丕賱噩賱胤丞 乇賵賷 卮丿賷丿 丕賱賲賱賱 賵丕賳鬲丕亘賴 丕賱鬲賰乇丕乇 賵丕賱鬲胤賵賷賱 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 丿丕毓 賱賴.
兀賷囟丕 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 鬲毓丕賮賷賴丕 賲賳 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賵丕賱鬲賷 丕爻鬲睾乇賯鬲 毓丿丞 爻賳賵丕鬲 賱賲 鬲賰賳 "賲賯賳毓丞 夭賲賳賷丕". 賮賮賷 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱匕賷 鬲禺亘乇賰 賮賷賴 亘丕賳毓丿丕賲 賯丿乇鬲賴丕 丕賱鬲丕賲 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲賲賷賷夭 亘賷賳 兀亘爻胤 賲賵噩賵丿丕鬲 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 亘毓丿 丕賱噩賱胤丞-賲孬賱 賲毓乇賮丞 丕賱兀賱賵丕賳 賵丕賱兀卮賰丕賱-鬲賮丕锟斤拷賶亍 亘兀賳賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 鬲丨賱賱 賮賷 匕賱賰 丕賱賵賯鬲 賲卮賰賱丞 毓賯賱賴丕 亘鬲賮丕氐賷賱 胤亘賷丞 賵毓賯賱賷丞 賱丕 鬲鬲兀鬲賷 賲賳胤賯賷丕 賱賲賳 賴賲 賮賷 賲孬賱 丨丕賱鬲賴丕.
賵賯賷丕爻丕 毓賱賶 匕賱賰貙 鬲賮賯丿 賯丿乇鬲賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賱丨爻丕亘貙 賵賱賰賳賴丕 亘卮賰賱 兀毓噩賵亘賷 鬲毓賵丿 賯丿乇鬲賴丕 丕賱賷賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賱賯丕亍 賲丨丕囟乇丞 毓賱賲賷丞 亘毓丿 鬲丨囟賷乇 賱兀爻亘賵毓 賮賯胤!!!!
賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱孬丕賳賷 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賮囟賱 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賮賷 鬲睾賷乇 卮禺氐賷鬲賴丕 丕賱賶 賳爻禺丞 兀賮囟賱 賵兀賰孬乇 爻賱丕賲丕 賲毓 丕賱賳賮爻 賵賲毓 丕賱兀禺乇賷賳. 賵賰丕賳 匕賱賰 噩賷丿丕 賮賷 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞. 賵賱賰賳 丕賱賶 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 鬲毓賷丿 賵鬲賰乇乇 毓賱賶 賲丿賶 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 孬賱丕孬丞 賮氐賵賱 賳賮爻 丕賱賮賰乇丞 毓賳 丕賱爻賱丕賲 賵毓賳 鬲賯亘賱 丕賱匕丕鬲 賵毓賳 丕賱鬲爻丕賲丨 賵賲丕 廿賱賶 匕賱賰.
兀賷囟丕貙 亘乇睾賲 噩賴賱賷 亘鬲卮乇賷丨 丕賱毓賯賱 賵賵馗丕卅賮賴貙 兀丨爻爻鬲 亘毓丿 賲賳胤賯賷丞 兀賵 "毓賲賱賷丞" 賲賯丕乇賳丕鬲賴丕 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳 亘丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賱賱賲禺. 賮賴賷 鬲賵囟丨 丕賱兀賲乇 亘卮賰賱 乇兀賷鬲 賮賷賴 賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱鬲爻胤賷丨 丕賱卮丿賷丿 亘毓賲賱賷丕鬲 毓賯賱賷丞 卮丿賷丿丞 丕賱鬲毓賯賷丿. 賵毓賳丿賲丕 毓丿鬲 廿賱賶 賲乇丕噩毓丕鬲 亘毓囟 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 毓賳 匕賱賰 丕賱賰鬲丕亘貙 賵噩丿鬲 兀賳賳賷 賱賲 兀賰賳 賲禺胤卅丞. 賮賯丿 兀賳賰乇 亘毓囟賴賲 氐丨丞 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 丕賱賵丕乇丿丞 亘丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲賮氐賱 亘賷賳 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賵亘賷賳 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳 賲賳 丕賱賲禺.
賰賲丕 賷亘丿賵 賲賳 丕賱毓賳賵丕賳貙 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賴賵 丨賰賷 賱鬲噩乇亘丞 丕賱賲丐賱賮丞 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賮賷 丕賱丕氐丕亘丞 亘噩賱胤丞 賮賷 丕賱賲禺. 賵賰賵賳 丕賱賲丐賱賮丞 毓丕賱賲丞 賮賷 賵馗丕卅賮 丕賱賲禺 噩毓賱賴丕 賯丕丿乇丞 亘卮賰賱 兀賮囟賱 毓賱賶 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱鬲丿賴賵乇 賱賵馗丕卅賮 匕賱賰 丕賱毓賯賱 亘毓丿 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賵亘毓丿 丕賱噩乇丕丨丞 賮賷 丕賱賲禺 丕賱鬲賷 鬲亘毓鬲賴丕.
毓賳丿賲丕 賳賮賯丿 卮賷卅丕賸 噩賵賴乇賷丕賸貙 賳睾乇賯 賮賷 丨爻乇丞 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 "賯亘賱 丕賱賰丕乇孬丞/亘毓丿 丕賱賰丕乇孬丞"貙 賵賱賰賳 丕賱賲丐賱賮丞 賴賳丕 賱賲 鬲丿毓 賱賳賮爻賴丕 賮乇氐丞 丕賱睾乇賯 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱丿賵丕賲丞 丕賱賷丕卅爻丞. 賵亘賮囟賱 丿毓賲 兀賲賴丕 丕賱賯賵賷 賱賴丕貙 丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲 亘毓丿 賲乇賵乇 爻賳賵丕鬲 丕賱毓賵丿丞 亘毓賯賱賴丕-賵賱賵 亘卮賰賱 噩夭卅賷-廿賱賶 賲丕 賰丕賳 毓賱賷賴 賯亘賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱丨丕丿孬.
兀爻鬲胤賷毓 丕賱賯賵賱 亘兀賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賱賲 賷乇賯 廿賱賶 賲爻鬲賵賶 鬲賵賯毓丕鬲賷. 賮賲丿賶 丕賱丨賰丕賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 丕毓鬲賲丿鬲 毓賱賷賴丕 丕賱賲丐賱賮丞 賴賵 賲丿賶 卮丿賷丿 丕賱賲丨丿賵丿賷丞. 賰丕賳鬲 乇賵丕賷鬲賴丕 賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賷賵賲 丨丿賵孬 丕賱噩賱胤丞 乇賵賷 卮丿賷丿 丕賱賲賱賱 賵丕賳鬲丕亘賴 丕賱鬲賰乇丕乇 賵丕賱鬲胤賵賷賱 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 丿丕毓 賱賴.
兀賷囟丕 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 鬲毓丕賮賷賴丕 賲賳 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賵丕賱鬲賷 丕爻鬲睾乇賯鬲 毓丿丞 爻賳賵丕鬲 賱賲 鬲賰賳 "賲賯賳毓丞 夭賲賳賷丕". 賮賮賷 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱匕賷 鬲禺亘乇賰 賮賷賴 亘丕賳毓丿丕賲 賯丿乇鬲賴丕 丕賱鬲丕賲 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲賲賷賷夭 亘賷賳 兀亘爻胤 賲賵噩賵丿丕鬲 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 亘毓丿 丕賱噩賱胤丞-賲孬賱 賲毓乇賮丞 丕賱兀賱賵丕賳 賵丕賱兀卮賰丕賱-鬲賮丕锟斤拷賶亍 亘兀賳賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 鬲丨賱賱 賮賷 匕賱賰 丕賱賵賯鬲 賲卮賰賱丞 毓賯賱賴丕 亘鬲賮丕氐賷賱 胤亘賷丞 賵毓賯賱賷丞 賱丕 鬲鬲兀鬲賷 賲賳胤賯賷丕 賱賲賳 賴賲 賮賷 賲孬賱 丨丕賱鬲賴丕.
賵賯賷丕爻丕 毓賱賶 匕賱賰貙 鬲賮賯丿 賯丿乇鬲賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賱丨爻丕亘貙 賵賱賰賳賴丕 亘卮賰賱 兀毓噩賵亘賷 鬲毓賵丿 賯丿乇鬲賴丕 丕賱賷賴丕 毓賱賶 丕賱賯丕亍 賲丨丕囟乇丞 毓賱賲賷丞 亘毓丿 鬲丨囟賷乇 賱兀爻亘賵毓 賮賯胤!!!!
賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱孬丕賳賷 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賮囟賱 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賮賷 鬲睾賷乇 卮禺氐賷鬲賴丕 丕賱賶 賳爻禺丞 兀賮囟賱 賵兀賰孬乇 爻賱丕賲丕 賲毓 丕賱賳賮爻 賵賲毓 丕賱兀禺乇賷賳. 賵賰丕賳 匕賱賰 噩賷丿丕 賮賷 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞. 賵賱賰賳 丕賱賶 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 鬲毓賷丿 賵鬲賰乇乇 毓賱賶 賲丿賶 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 孬賱丕孬丞 賮氐賵賱 賳賮爻 丕賱賮賰乇丞 毓賳 丕賱爻賱丕賲 賵毓賳 鬲賯亘賱 丕賱匕丕鬲 賵毓賳 丕賱鬲爻丕賲丨 賵賲丕 廿賱賶 匕賱賰.
兀賷囟丕貙 亘乇睾賲 噩賴賱賷 亘鬲卮乇賷丨 丕賱毓賯賱 賵賵馗丕卅賮賴貙 兀丨爻爻鬲 亘毓丿 賲賳胤賯賷丞 兀賵 "毓賲賱賷丞" 賲賯丕乇賳丕鬲賴丕 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳 亘丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賱賱賲禺. 賮賴賷 鬲賵囟丨 丕賱兀賲乇 亘卮賰賱 乇兀賷鬲 賮賷賴 賳賵毓 賲賳 丕賱鬲爻胤賷丨 丕賱卮丿賷丿 亘毓賲賱賷丕鬲 毓賯賱賷丞 卮丿賷丿丞 丕賱鬲毓賯賷丿. 賵毓賳丿賲丕 毓丿鬲 廿賱賶 賲乇丕噩毓丕鬲 亘毓囟 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 毓賳 匕賱賰 丕賱賰鬲丕亘貙 賵噩丿鬲 兀賳賳賷 賱賲 兀賰賳 賲禺胤卅丞. 賮賯丿 兀賳賰乇 亘毓囟賴賲 氐丨丞 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 丕賱賵丕乇丿丞 亘丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲賮氐賱 亘賷賳 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賵亘賷賳 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳 賲賳 丕賱賲禺.
February 20, 2009
The author, an accomplished neuroanatomist, suffers a massive CVA at the age of 37. She takes the reader through the events of her stroke and the recovery. (8 long years of recovery!) She gives basic brain science for understanding, and speaks from the heart.
The grouch in me wanted to poo-poo the whole book when she started in with how she uses "angel cards" to start her day. I ignored the alarm in my head, screaming, "New age kook! Abort! Abort!" But it was too late. I was suckered in. And really, if those cards help her start her day with a clear intention, and bring her comfort and peace, more power to her. Maybe more of us need to do that.
Or not.
Anyway, this book gets 5 stars alone for Appendix B in the back. The list of "forty things I needed the most" should be printed out and handed to family and friends of stroke/brain injury patients. Heck, maybe it should be mandatory reading material for all medical professionals as well. (you know, respect that the patient is wounded, not dumb. Don't treat them as if they are deaf unless they are. Protect them, but don't stand in the way of progress)
My favorite on the list is #23: Trust that my brain can always continue to learn.
Because they can.
And do.
Jill Bolte Taylor is living proof.
18 min. video of Jill speaking... Thanks, D2!
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The grouch in me wanted to poo-poo the whole book when she started in with how she uses "angel cards" to start her day. I ignored the alarm in my head, screaming, "New age kook! Abort! Abort!" But it was too late. I was suckered in. And really, if those cards help her start her day with a clear intention, and bring her comfort and peace, more power to her. Maybe more of us need to do that.
Or not.
Anyway, this book gets 5 stars alone for Appendix B in the back. The list of "forty things I needed the most" should be printed out and handed to family and friends of stroke/brain injury patients. Heck, maybe it should be mandatory reading material for all medical professionals as well. (you know, respect that the patient is wounded, not dumb. Don't treat them as if they are deaf unless they are. Protect them, but don't stand in the way of progress)
My favorite on the list is #23: Trust that my brain can always continue to learn.
Because they can.
And do.
Jill Bolte Taylor is living proof.
18 min. video of Jill speaking... Thanks, D2!
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April 8, 2017
I read this years ago --- still own it. I thought the insights were amazing --and a fascinating story. --
Emotional too....This was a woman's 'life'.
Interesting how books pop into our space when we are meeting new friends on 欧宝娱乐....
Brings back memories of books we read!
A treasure in itself! -- make a new friend = re-visit books we have read.............nice deal!
Emotional too....This was a woman's 'life'.
Interesting how books pop into our space when we are meeting new friends on 欧宝娱乐....
Brings back memories of books we read!
A treasure in itself! -- make a new friend = re-visit books we have read.............nice deal!
December 8, 2008
I wanted to like this book more than I actually did. I wanted this book to be several other books than the one it actually was. I found it alternately fascinating and incredibly irritating.
Taylor is a brain scientist who had a stroke and recovered enough to write about it. The chance to learn about what that experience was like seemed compelling enough to me to start reading the book. When her left brain went offline due to the stroke, she experienced only living in her right brain --what she describes as a blissful nirvana. She's spent years getting her left brain back, and as a result has a unique perspective on the relationship of the two halves.
I stuck with the book because I'm sympathetic to at much of what she was saying -- that if you can turn down the volume on the ego's chatter to attain a sense of calm, your life is better off. It's just that most of us approach that goal through meditation, yoga, spiritual practice, or philosophy. Her writing resolutely avoids any such discussion. So it was kind of like reading a book about God written by an autistic person -- it seemed incredibly flat, devoid of emotion, even when she was talking about feelings.
I suspect that this book is the result of divided intentions about its goals and audience -- perhaps between the author and her editor, or between the author's two brain halves, I don't know. It's one part pop-science, 1 part survival memoir, 1 part oddly cold narcissism, and 1 part new age metaphysics. The audiences for these things are really different, and to successfully blend them would take a much more compelling writing style than Taylor's. It's unfortunate that a book that should be the demonstration of her recovery kept making me wonder whether she was expressing herself so badly because of her brain injury.
There are grains of interesting stuff in here, and it's a quick read. It's definitely been on my mind for the past few days, despite my irritation with it. I've heard from friends that audio interviews with Taylor are very warm and charming, which is the exact opposite of my impression from reading the book. Maybe that would be a better place to start if you're curious.
Taylor is a brain scientist who had a stroke and recovered enough to write about it. The chance to learn about what that experience was like seemed compelling enough to me to start reading the book. When her left brain went offline due to the stroke, she experienced only living in her right brain --what she describes as a blissful nirvana. She's spent years getting her left brain back, and as a result has a unique perspective on the relationship of the two halves.
I stuck with the book because I'm sympathetic to at much of what she was saying -- that if you can turn down the volume on the ego's chatter to attain a sense of calm, your life is better off. It's just that most of us approach that goal through meditation, yoga, spiritual practice, or philosophy. Her writing resolutely avoids any such discussion. So it was kind of like reading a book about God written by an autistic person -- it seemed incredibly flat, devoid of emotion, even when she was talking about feelings.
I suspect that this book is the result of divided intentions about its goals and audience -- perhaps between the author and her editor, or between the author's two brain halves, I don't know. It's one part pop-science, 1 part survival memoir, 1 part oddly cold narcissism, and 1 part new age metaphysics. The audiences for these things are really different, and to successfully blend them would take a much more compelling writing style than Taylor's. It's unfortunate that a book that should be the demonstration of her recovery kept making me wonder whether she was expressing herself so badly because of her brain injury.
There are grains of interesting stuff in here, and it's a quick read. It's definitely been on my mind for the past few days, despite my irritation with it. I've heard from friends that audio interviews with Taylor are very warm and charming, which is the exact opposite of my impression from reading the book. Maybe that would be a better place to start if you're curious.
September 15, 2008
whoa. i probably should have paid more attention to the little tagline under her name that proudly proclaims "the singin' scientist" and put it down immediately. but that wasn't how it worked.
see, the author is a brain scientist who had a stroke. i heard her speak on NPR and she was insightful and funny and had very interesting things to say about the brain, so i put the book on hold at the library and a eagerly picked it up a few days ago.
i loved the section of the book that gave us an intro course on the science of the brain. it was well written and engaging. AND it totally fooled me into thinking that the rest of the book would be more of the same.
not so. i felt invested after reading the first 30 or so pages of brain science and then her minute by minute description of what was happening when she suffered a stroke, which is the only somewhat logical reason that i didn't actually throw this book across the room.
it was her sappy, polyanna, and ridiculously one-dimensional tale of recovery that made me actually hate this book. her insanely upbeat self-narrative was too much for me. in the words of another reviewer on this site "The information in this book could have been stopped at phamplet size. Instead we have to read chapter after chapter of 4th grade happy talk."
yep. only now YOU know, so you don't have to.
see, the author is a brain scientist who had a stroke. i heard her speak on NPR and she was insightful and funny and had very interesting things to say about the brain, so i put the book on hold at the library and a eagerly picked it up a few days ago.
i loved the section of the book that gave us an intro course on the science of the brain. it was well written and engaging. AND it totally fooled me into thinking that the rest of the book would be more of the same.
not so. i felt invested after reading the first 30 or so pages of brain science and then her minute by minute description of what was happening when she suffered a stroke, which is the only somewhat logical reason that i didn't actually throw this book across the room.
it was her sappy, polyanna, and ridiculously one-dimensional tale of recovery that made me actually hate this book. her insanely upbeat self-narrative was too much for me. in the words of another reviewer on this site "The information in this book could have been stopped at phamplet size. Instead we have to read chapter after chapter of 4th grade happy talk."
yep. only now YOU know, so you don't have to.
June 18, 2020
鬲丨賷丞 廿賰亘丕乇 賱丕賲賴丕 賵 廿乇丕丿鬲賴丕
March 12, 2011
Oh, gag. Yes, really. I'm glad the author used her stroke to find nirvana, but honestly, stroke just ain't this pretty.
The first half of this book, more or less, was a page turner and I was fascinated. Dr. Taylor was a successful 37-year-old neuroanatomist who suffered a hemorrhagic stroke as a result of a congenital condition called arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Partly because of her training and knowledge and partly, I suspect, because of the way the stroke's effects developed and progressed, she was able to observe herself and analyze the process as it was happening (and somehow remembered or recovered this information later -- which seems to me the amazing part (perhaps a little too amazing?). She was functioning enough (barely) to be able to call for help when she realized she was having a stroke. I would guess this is highly atypical. The book is about the events of that day, as well as Dr. Taylor's slow recovery with her damaged brain.
I particularly liked the earlier chapters and Taylor's recounting of what she experienced when the stroke occurred (she was alone in her apartment) and the immediate aftermath, the progressive loss of function. There's also a great deal of valuable information about recognizing signs of a stroke, as well as how to treat people who have sustained a stroke. (Patience, patience, patience. And don't holler. They're not deaf.) The book also teaches us about the brain's plasticity and resilience.
I felt the book got a bit redundant after a while, but it's hard to fault the author for wanting to underscore her points. She's not just a memoirist. She's a teacher and advocate for people with mental impairment.
But after the first few chapters, Taylor wanders off into the la-la land of pseudoscience, pop psych mythology, personal opinion, and belief. Another 欧宝娱乐 reviewer (Lena) has said: "[T]here is a very sloppy blending of hard, scientific information about the brain with Bolte Taylor鈥檚 anecdotal experience and personal theories about what happened to her. It was not always obvious which was which, and I suspect many readers will be confused and assume her personal theories are more scientifically grounded than they actually are." I concur and find this irresponsible and troubling.
Unfortunately, this led me to have more and more doubts about the veracity of the story she recounted in the early chapters. (How much is accurate, how much a plausible reconstruction? And really, how plausible is it?) Her pop-psych perspective isn't informed by science. Her views on right brain / left brain function are vastly oversimplified and just not consistent with contemporary cognitive neuroscience. I expected more from a PhD neuroanatomist! But perhaps she hasn't kept up with the field since her 1996 stroke.*
Of course, some specific functions are lateralized. Most notably, the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa. Linear thinking, logic, language, and math skills are primarily grounded in the left hemisphere. Broca's area (language production) and Wernicke's area (language comprehension) are in the left hemisphere. But many language processes take place in the right hemisphere, along with visual, spatial, and auditory functions. Many other cognitive functions are bilateral.
However, the notion that a person is right-brained or left-brained (or that one's personality is right-brain or left-brain dominant) is largely a pop psych myth that derives from research in the 1960s on split-brain patients (people whose corpus collosum connecting the two sides of the brain had been severed). The conclusions of this research were later found to be premature. The two sides of the brain are far more interdependent than once thought. There's a lot of good science and high-tech brain imaging to support this. All complex cognitive function and information processing require complex interactions of various regions of the brain in both hemispheres. This has been well known for over a decade now.
The only left-brained or right-brained people are those who've had one of their brain hemispheres removed.
By the last few chapters, I felt as though Taylor were just making stuff up. It's a lot of New Age blathering -- a mishmash of personal opinion and belief based on memory and subjective experience, which we well know to be poor indices of objective reality.
Most, or certainly many, people who have strokes end up with physical and mental disabilities that are not so easily overcome. And I'm not saying Taylor had an easy time of it, but she does romanticize the whole process which culminates in her ability to be "one" with the universe. If she tells us once, she tells us a hundred times.
Where did I throw the book across the room?** Maybe when she started talking about how she uses angel cards every day. Or no, maybe here:
"I unconditionally love my cells with an open heart and grateful mind. Spontaneously throughout the day, I acknowledge their existence and enthusiastically cheer them on. I am a wonderful living being capable of beaming my energy into the world, only because of them. When my bowels move, I cheer my cells for cleaning that waste out of my body. When my urine flows, I admire the volume my bladder cells are capable of storing. . . ."
No Oliver Sacks.
Quick, quick! I need an antidote!
___________________________________
* The modern understanding of brain hemisphere function is not exactly new. In 1999, John McCrone wrote in New Scientist
"Many a myth has grown up around the brain's asymmetry. The left cerebral hemisphere is supposed to be the coldly logical, verbal and dominant half of the brain, while the right developed a reputation as the imaginative side, emotional, spatially aware but suppressed. Two personalities in one head, Yin and Yang, hero and villain. To most neuroscientists, of course, these notions are seen as simplistic at best and nonsense at worst."
**Not really. I'd have thrown it had it not been a library book.
The first half of this book, more or less, was a page turner and I was fascinated. Dr. Taylor was a successful 37-year-old neuroanatomist who suffered a hemorrhagic stroke as a result of a congenital condition called arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Partly because of her training and knowledge and partly, I suspect, because of the way the stroke's effects developed and progressed, she was able to observe herself and analyze the process as it was happening (and somehow remembered or recovered this information later -- which seems to me the amazing part (perhaps a little too amazing?). She was functioning enough (barely) to be able to call for help when she realized she was having a stroke. I would guess this is highly atypical. The book is about the events of that day, as well as Dr. Taylor's slow recovery with her damaged brain.
I particularly liked the earlier chapters and Taylor's recounting of what she experienced when the stroke occurred (she was alone in her apartment) and the immediate aftermath, the progressive loss of function. There's also a great deal of valuable information about recognizing signs of a stroke, as well as how to treat people who have sustained a stroke. (Patience, patience, patience. And don't holler. They're not deaf.) The book also teaches us about the brain's plasticity and resilience.
I felt the book got a bit redundant after a while, but it's hard to fault the author for wanting to underscore her points. She's not just a memoirist. She's a teacher and advocate for people with mental impairment.
But after the first few chapters, Taylor wanders off into the la-la land of pseudoscience, pop psych mythology, personal opinion, and belief. Another 欧宝娱乐 reviewer (Lena) has said: "[T]here is a very sloppy blending of hard, scientific information about the brain with Bolte Taylor鈥檚 anecdotal experience and personal theories about what happened to her. It was not always obvious which was which, and I suspect many readers will be confused and assume her personal theories are more scientifically grounded than they actually are." I concur and find this irresponsible and troubling.
Unfortunately, this led me to have more and more doubts about the veracity of the story she recounted in the early chapters. (How much is accurate, how much a plausible reconstruction? And really, how plausible is it?) Her pop-psych perspective isn't informed by science. Her views on right brain / left brain function are vastly oversimplified and just not consistent with contemporary cognitive neuroscience. I expected more from a PhD neuroanatomist! But perhaps she hasn't kept up with the field since her 1996 stroke.*
Of course, some specific functions are lateralized. Most notably, the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa. Linear thinking, logic, language, and math skills are primarily grounded in the left hemisphere. Broca's area (language production) and Wernicke's area (language comprehension) are in the left hemisphere. But many language processes take place in the right hemisphere, along with visual, spatial, and auditory functions. Many other cognitive functions are bilateral.
However, the notion that a person is right-brained or left-brained (or that one's personality is right-brain or left-brain dominant) is largely a pop psych myth that derives from research in the 1960s on split-brain patients (people whose corpus collosum connecting the two sides of the brain had been severed). The conclusions of this research were later found to be premature. The two sides of the brain are far more interdependent than once thought. There's a lot of good science and high-tech brain imaging to support this. All complex cognitive function and information processing require complex interactions of various regions of the brain in both hemispheres. This has been well known for over a decade now.
The only left-brained or right-brained people are those who've had one of their brain hemispheres removed.
By the last few chapters, I felt as though Taylor were just making stuff up. It's a lot of New Age blathering -- a mishmash of personal opinion and belief based on memory and subjective experience, which we well know to be poor indices of objective reality.
Most, or certainly many, people who have strokes end up with physical and mental disabilities that are not so easily overcome. And I'm not saying Taylor had an easy time of it, but she does romanticize the whole process which culminates in her ability to be "one" with the universe. If she tells us once, she tells us a hundred times.
Where did I throw the book across the room?** Maybe when she started talking about how she uses angel cards every day. Or no, maybe here:
"I unconditionally love my cells with an open heart and grateful mind. Spontaneously throughout the day, I acknowledge their existence and enthusiastically cheer them on. I am a wonderful living being capable of beaming my energy into the world, only because of them. When my bowels move, I cheer my cells for cleaning that waste out of my body. When my urine flows, I admire the volume my bladder cells are capable of storing. . . ."
No Oliver Sacks.
Quick, quick! I need an antidote!
___________________________________
* The modern understanding of brain hemisphere function is not exactly new. In 1999, John McCrone wrote in New Scientist
"Many a myth has grown up around the brain's asymmetry. The left cerebral hemisphere is supposed to be the coldly logical, verbal and dominant half of the brain, while the right developed a reputation as the imaginative side, emotional, spatially aware but suppressed. Two personalities in one head, Yin and Yang, hero and villain. To most neuroscientists, of course, these notions are seen as simplistic at best and nonsense at worst."
**Not really. I'd have thrown it had it not been a library book.
July 14, 2008
This book wasn't what I was expecting. I expected to read a memoir of sorts. Maybe a before and after or even a during the process what was happening. And JBT does write "lightly" about those things. But mainly she is writing a self-help book that seeks to influence the rest of us to embrace the right side of our brains. As a brain scientist, she has a stroke then discovers she is one with the universe. Her brain and her cells are beautiful! Oh how lovely the world and everyone in it! The information in this book could have been stopped at phamplet size. Instead we have to read chapter after chapter of 4th grade happy talk. I can imagine most people aren't as masochistic as I and will quit mid-book on this one . . .
March 20, 2022
5 stars means, to me, that everybody should read it, not that it's necessarily a perfect book.
Everybody is fairly likely to have a stroke, watch someone who is having a stroke, know someone who is recovering from a stroke, or at least visit a rehabilitation clinic or nursing home. The recommendations at the end are important. First there's a page that reminds you what a stroke feels like, and tells you to get help immediately.* Then there's a list of advice on how to help someone who is in therapy to recover.
*Dr. Jill did not get help immediately, and by the time she realized she needed help, she was almost incapable of calling for same, which further delayed her treatment.
Ok, here's the thing. The narrative is only 177 pages, yet I put in 8 bookdarts. Let's see how many I have the energy to share with you. But first, let me tell you more about what's so valuable about this book. It's not just about strokes, or even just about general brain injuries.
For example, you know how there's a bunch of current pop psychology books about how train our brains and how to break bad habits and develop good habits? Dr. Jill, while talking about how she worked toward recovery, gives us a really good, really short, version of the content of those books. Another example: there's the 'insight' Dr. Jill experienced. It's a little bit spiritual, a tiny bit 'new-agey.' But it also makes sense to this atheist.
Ok, anyway, on to the bookdarts:
"I think it is vitally important that stroke survivors share and communicate about how each of their brains strategized recovery.... [O]ur medical professionals could be more effective during those initial hours of treatment and assessment. I wanted my doctors to focus on how my brain was working rather than on whether it worked according to their criteria or timetable. I still knew volumes of information and I was simply going to have to figure out how to access it again."
At home, Jill's mother, G.G., was an amazing therapist. Since much information was lost, G.G. worked to fill in the gaps.
"'For lunch, you can have minestrone soup [and I found the file in mind and remembered what that was] or a grilled cheese sandwich [found it] or tuna salad.' Since I could not find the file for tuna salad, that's what we chose for lunch. That was our strategy if I couldn't find the old file; we made it a point to make a new one."
G.G. also guided Jill by giving her toddlers' toys. A 12 piece jigsaw puzzle enabled two days of teachable moments. Jill learned 'face-up' and 'edge' and 'insies & outsies' but was still not making matches, until G.G. noted, "Jill, you can use color as a clue." "I could not see color until I was told that color was a tool I could use. Who would have guessed that my left hemisphere needed to be told about color for it to register? I found the same to be true for seeing in three dimensions."
... Point of clarification: do know that different stroke victims have different parts of their minds damaged. Most of Jill's book applies to any person who has experienced brain trauma, but some specific details will vary.
Jill wants us to know that doctors are *wrong* to say that "If you don't have your abilities back by six months,... you won't."
"I needed my visitors to bring me their positive energy.... I appreciated when people came in for just a few minutes, took my hands in theirs, and shared softly and slowly how they were doing, what they were thinking, and how they believed in my ability to recover... nervous, anxious, or angry people were counter-productive."
Here's advice to anyone who feels vulnerable to moods like fretfulness, resentment, or self-pity. "Although there are certain limbic (emotional) programs that can be triggered automatically, it takes less than 90 seconds for one of these programs to be triggered, surge through our body, and then be completely flushed out of our blood stream.... If I remain angry [for example] then it is because I have chosen to let that circuit continue to run. Moment by moment, I make the choice to either hook into my neurocircuitry or move back into the present moment, allowing that reaction to melt away as fleeting physiology."
To help her break that circuit, Dr. Jill says "I wait 90 seconds.. and then I speak to my brain as though it is a group of children. I say with sincerity, 'I appreciate you ability to think thoughts and feel emotions, but I am really not interested in thinking these thoughts or feeling these emotions anymore. Please stop bringing this stuff up."
"In extreme situations of cellular disregard, I use my authentic voice to put my language center's Peanut Gallery on a strict time schedule. I give my story-teller full permission to whine rampantly between 9-9:30... If it accidentally misses whine time it is not allowed to reengage in that behavior until its next allotted appointment.... I am serious about not hooking into those negative loops of thought."
Instead, she keeps a handy list of good things to think about: "1) I remember something fascinating that I would like to ponder more deeply, 2) I think about something that would bring me terrific joy, or 3) I think about something I would like to do."
Whew. Those are all the bookdarts. But I'm glad that I took the time to type them all up. So valuable. :)
Yes, I know this a long review of a short book. Still, Dr. Jill writes clearly and concisely - there's a lot of benefit to you to read the book yourself
Everybody is fairly likely to have a stroke, watch someone who is having a stroke, know someone who is recovering from a stroke, or at least visit a rehabilitation clinic or nursing home. The recommendations at the end are important. First there's a page that reminds you what a stroke feels like, and tells you to get help immediately.* Then there's a list of advice on how to help someone who is in therapy to recover.
*Dr. Jill did not get help immediately, and by the time she realized she needed help, she was almost incapable of calling for same, which further delayed her treatment.
Ok, here's the thing. The narrative is only 177 pages, yet I put in 8 bookdarts. Let's see how many I have the energy to share with you. But first, let me tell you more about what's so valuable about this book. It's not just about strokes, or even just about general brain injuries.
For example, you know how there's a bunch of current pop psychology books about how train our brains and how to break bad habits and develop good habits? Dr. Jill, while talking about how she worked toward recovery, gives us a really good, really short, version of the content of those books. Another example: there's the 'insight' Dr. Jill experienced. It's a little bit spiritual, a tiny bit 'new-agey.' But it also makes sense to this atheist.
Ok, anyway, on to the bookdarts:
"I think it is vitally important that stroke survivors share and communicate about how each of their brains strategized recovery.... [O]ur medical professionals could be more effective during those initial hours of treatment and assessment. I wanted my doctors to focus on how my brain was working rather than on whether it worked according to their criteria or timetable. I still knew volumes of information and I was simply going to have to figure out how to access it again."
At home, Jill's mother, G.G., was an amazing therapist. Since much information was lost, G.G. worked to fill in the gaps.
"'For lunch, you can have minestrone soup [and I found the file in mind and remembered what that was] or a grilled cheese sandwich [found it] or tuna salad.' Since I could not find the file for tuna salad, that's what we chose for lunch. That was our strategy if I couldn't find the old file; we made it a point to make a new one."
G.G. also guided Jill by giving her toddlers' toys. A 12 piece jigsaw puzzle enabled two days of teachable moments. Jill learned 'face-up' and 'edge' and 'insies & outsies' but was still not making matches, until G.G. noted, "Jill, you can use color as a clue." "I could not see color until I was told that color was a tool I could use. Who would have guessed that my left hemisphere needed to be told about color for it to register? I found the same to be true for seeing in three dimensions."
... Point of clarification: do know that different stroke victims have different parts of their minds damaged. Most of Jill's book applies to any person who has experienced brain trauma, but some specific details will vary.
Jill wants us to know that doctors are *wrong* to say that "If you don't have your abilities back by six months,... you won't."
"I needed my visitors to bring me their positive energy.... I appreciated when people came in for just a few minutes, took my hands in theirs, and shared softly and slowly how they were doing, what they were thinking, and how they believed in my ability to recover... nervous, anxious, or angry people were counter-productive."
Here's advice to anyone who feels vulnerable to moods like fretfulness, resentment, or self-pity. "Although there are certain limbic (emotional) programs that can be triggered automatically, it takes less than 90 seconds for one of these programs to be triggered, surge through our body, and then be completely flushed out of our blood stream.... If I remain angry [for example] then it is because I have chosen to let that circuit continue to run. Moment by moment, I make the choice to either hook into my neurocircuitry or move back into the present moment, allowing that reaction to melt away as fleeting physiology."
To help her break that circuit, Dr. Jill says "I wait 90 seconds.. and then I speak to my brain as though it is a group of children. I say with sincerity, 'I appreciate you ability to think thoughts and feel emotions, but I am really not interested in thinking these thoughts or feeling these emotions anymore. Please stop bringing this stuff up."
"In extreme situations of cellular disregard, I use my authentic voice to put my language center's Peanut Gallery on a strict time schedule. I give my story-teller full permission to whine rampantly between 9-9:30... If it accidentally misses whine time it is not allowed to reengage in that behavior until its next allotted appointment.... I am serious about not hooking into those negative loops of thought."
Instead, she keeps a handy list of good things to think about: "1) I remember something fascinating that I would like to ponder more deeply, 2) I think about something that would bring me terrific joy, or 3) I think about something I would like to do."
Whew. Those are all the bookdarts. But I'm glad that I took the time to type them all up. So valuable. :)
Yes, I know this a long review of a short book. Still, Dr. Jill writes clearly and concisely - there's a lot of benefit to you to read the book yourself
August 18, 2019
丕賱噩賱胤丞 (Cerebrovascular accident)
丕賱賲氐丕丿賮丞 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞 賴賷 賯乇兀鬲賷 賱賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱賲鬲夭丕賲賳丞 賲毓 丿乇丕爻鬲賷 賱胤亘 丕賱亘丕胤賳丞 - 賮乇毓 丕賱噩賴丕夭 丕賱毓氐亘賷 (Internal medicine neurology)
Haemorrahgic (丕賱賲丿賴卮 賴賵 兀賳 丿.噩賷賱賷 鬲毓乇囟鬲 賱賱賳賵毓 丕賱兀賯賱 丨丿賵孬丕購 賲賳 丕賱噩賱胤丞 (丕賱賳夭賮賷
賵丕賱匕賷 賷卮賰賱 15 %賲賳 廿噩賲丕賱賷 丕賱丨丕賱丕鬲 貙 賰匕賱賰 賱賷爻 賳夭賮丕賸 賳鬲賷噩丞 囟睾胤 夭丕卅丿 兀賵睾賷乇賴 貨 亘賱 賳賵毓 兀賳丿乇賮賷 丕賱丨丿賵孬 賵賴賵 鬲卮賵賴 禺購賱賯賷 賮賷 噩丿丕乇 丕賱卮乇賷丕賳 賽
Arteriovenous malformation :Aneurysm
亘乇睾賲 丕賱廿氐丕亘丞 丕賱賰亘乇賶 賱賲賳丕胤賯 賵丕爻毓丞 賮賷 丕賱丿賲丕睾 賵 兀孬乇賴丕 丕賱爻賷亍 毓賱賶 賲禺鬲賱賮 賵馗丕卅賮 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 (丕賱乇卅賷爻賷 賱匕賶 兀睾賱亘賷丞 丕賱賳丕爻) 廿賱丕 廿賳 毓夭賷賲鬲賴丕 賱賱卮賮丕亍 賵禺亘乇鬲賴丕 賰賲禺鬲氐丞 兀賰丕丿賷賲賷丞 賮賷 毓賱賲 丕賱兀毓氐丕亘 賲賰賳鬲賴丕 賲賳 賲噩丕亘賴丞 賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 丕賱賯丕鬲賱 賱鬲毓賵丿 賱賱丨賷丕丞 賵鬲鬲毓賱賲 賰賲丕 丕賱胤賮賱 賱賲丿丞 8 爻賳賵丕鬲 賱鬲爻鬲毓賷丿 賲丕 禺爻乇鬲賴 賮賷 氐亘丕丨 兀丨丿 丕賱兀賷丕賲.
兀丿乇賰鬲 丕賱賲毓兀賳丕丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷賰丕亘丿賴丕 丕賱賲乇囟賶 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賵 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨鬲丕噩 賱賲毓丕賲賱丞 禺丕氐丞 賲賳 賯亘賱 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 丕賱賲毓丕賱噩賷賳 賵丕賱兀賴賱 賮賷 爻亘賷賱 乇丕丨丞 賵卮賮丕亍 丕賱賲氐丕亘.
兀賳丕乇鬲 丕賱噩賱胤丞 毓賯賱 噩賷賱賷 賵 賰卮賮鬲 毓賳 毓賵丕胤賮賴丕 賵廿賳爻丕賳賷鬲賴丕 丕賱賰丕賲賳丞 賮賷 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳 賵丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲 鬲毓賱賲 丕賱賲賵丕夭賳丞 亘賷賳賴賲丕 賱鬲丨賷丕 賰廿賳爻丕賳丞 噩丿賷丿丞 亘賵毓賷 賲丨鬲賱賮 毓賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 毓賱賷賴.
賲賲丕 賱賲 賷毓噩亘賳賷 鬲丿丕禺賱 丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳 丕賱賮氐賷賷賳 丕賱兀賷賲賳 賵丕賱兀賷爻乇 賵丕賱廿爻賴丕亘 賮賷 丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賮氐賱 亘賷賳賴賲丕 貙 亘賷賳賲丕 賮賷 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賴賲丕 賲鬲卮丕亘賰丕賳 賰毓囟賵 賵丕丨丿 賵賲鬲賰丕賲賱丕賳 賮賷 丕賱賵馗丕卅賮 賵賱丕 兀毓鬲賯丿 亘兀賳賴 賷賲賰賳 丕賱賮氐賱 賵丕賱丕禺鬲賷丕乇 亘賷賳 兀賷賳賴賲丕 賷毓賲賱 毓賱賶 丨爻亘 丕賱賲賵賯賮 丕賱匕賷 賷賲乇 亘賴 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳
亘丕賱賲噩賲賱 賰鬲丕亘 噩賷丿 噩賷丿丕賸
丕賱賲氐丕丿賮丞 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞 賴賷 賯乇兀鬲賷 賱賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱賲鬲夭丕賲賳丞 賲毓 丿乇丕爻鬲賷 賱胤亘 丕賱亘丕胤賳丞 - 賮乇毓 丕賱噩賴丕夭 丕賱毓氐亘賷 (Internal medicine neurology)
Haemorrahgic (丕賱賲丿賴卮 賴賵 兀賳 丿.噩賷賱賷 鬲毓乇囟鬲 賱賱賳賵毓 丕賱兀賯賱 丨丿賵孬丕購 賲賳 丕賱噩賱胤丞 (丕賱賳夭賮賷
賵丕賱匕賷 賷卮賰賱 15 %賲賳 廿噩賲丕賱賷 丕賱丨丕賱丕鬲 貙 賰匕賱賰 賱賷爻 賳夭賮丕賸 賳鬲賷噩丞 囟睾胤 夭丕卅丿 兀賵睾賷乇賴 貨 亘賱 賳賵毓 兀賳丿乇賮賷 丕賱丨丿賵孬 賵賴賵 鬲卮賵賴 禺購賱賯賷 賮賷 噩丿丕乇 丕賱卮乇賷丕賳 賽
Arteriovenous malformation :Aneurysm
亘乇睾賲 丕賱廿氐丕亘丞 丕賱賰亘乇賶 賱賲賳丕胤賯 賵丕爻毓丞 賮賷 丕賱丿賲丕睾 賵 兀孬乇賴丕 丕賱爻賷亍 毓賱賶 賲禺鬲賱賮 賵馗丕卅賮 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 (丕賱乇卅賷爻賷 賱匕賶 兀睾賱亘賷丞 丕賱賳丕爻) 廿賱丕 廿賳 毓夭賷賲鬲賴丕 賱賱卮賮丕亍 賵禺亘乇鬲賴丕 賰賲禺鬲氐丞 兀賰丕丿賷賲賷丞 賮賷 毓賱賲 丕賱兀毓氐丕亘 賲賰賳鬲賴丕 賲賳 賲噩丕亘賴丞 賴匕丕 丕賱賲乇囟 丕賱賯丕鬲賱 賱鬲毓賵丿 賱賱丨賷丕丞 賵鬲鬲毓賱賲 賰賲丕 丕賱胤賮賱 賱賲丿丞 8 爻賳賵丕鬲 賱鬲爻鬲毓賷丿 賲丕 禺爻乇鬲賴 賮賷 氐亘丕丨 兀丨丿 丕賱兀賷丕賲.
兀丿乇賰鬲 丕賱賲毓兀賳丕丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷賰丕亘丿賴丕 丕賱賲乇囟賶 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賵 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨鬲丕噩 賱賲毓丕賲賱丞 禺丕氐丞 賲賳 賯亘賱 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 丕賱賲毓丕賱噩賷賳 賵丕賱兀賴賱 賮賷 爻亘賷賱 乇丕丨丞 賵卮賮丕亍 丕賱賲氐丕亘.
兀賳丕乇鬲 丕賱噩賱胤丞 毓賯賱 噩賷賱賷 賵 賰卮賮鬲 毓賳 毓賵丕胤賮賴丕 賵廿賳爻丕賳賷鬲賴丕 丕賱賰丕賲賳丞 賮賷 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷賲賳 賵丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲 鬲毓賱賲 丕賱賲賵丕夭賳丞 亘賷賳賴賲丕 賱鬲丨賷丕 賰廿賳爻丕賳丞 噩丿賷丿丞 亘賵毓賷 賲丨鬲賱賮 毓賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 毓賱賷賴.
賲賲丕 賱賲 賷毓噩亘賳賷 鬲丿丕禺賱 丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳 丕賱賮氐賷賷賳 丕賱兀賷賲賳 賵丕賱兀賷爻乇 賵丕賱廿爻賴丕亘 賮賷 丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賮氐賱 亘賷賳賴賲丕 貙 亘賷賳賲丕 賮賷 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賴賲丕 賲鬲卮丕亘賰丕賳 賰毓囟賵 賵丕丨丿 賵賲鬲賰丕賲賱丕賳 賮賷 丕賱賵馗丕卅賮 賵賱丕 兀毓鬲賯丿 亘兀賳賴 賷賲賰賳 丕賱賮氐賱 賵丕賱丕禺鬲賷丕乇 亘賷賳 兀賷賳賴賲丕 賷毓賲賱 毓賱賶 丨爻亘 丕賱賲賵賯賮 丕賱匕賷 賷賲乇 亘賴 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳
亘丕賱賲噩賲賱 賰鬲丕亘 噩賷丿 噩賷丿丕賸
August 11, 2019
賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賴賵 賮賷 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 賲夭賷噩 乇丕卅毓 賲賳 丕賱爻賷乇丞 丕賱匕丕鬲賷賾丞 賵丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賵亘賷賳 毓賱賲 賮爻賷賵賱賵噩賷丕 丕賱兀毓氐丕亘! 睾乇賷亘責 乇亘賲丕貙 賱賰賳賾 丕賱賲丐賱賮丞 賮賷 賵丕賯毓 丕賱兀賲乇 丕爻鬲胤丕毓鬲 鬲賵賱賷賮 賴匕賴 丕賱毓賳丕氐乇 賱鬲賯丿賾賲 鬲噩乇亘鬲賴丕 賱賱賯丕乇卅 -丕賱毓丕丿賷賾- 亘爻賱丕爻丞 賵丿賵賳 兀賷賾 鬲毓賯賷丿貙听 丿.噩賷賱 鬲賷賱賵乇 賴賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲丞 賵丕禺鬲氐丕氐賷賾丞 賮賷 毓賱賲 丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨 丕賱毓氐亘賷 賵丕賳鬲購禺亘鬲 囟賲賳 賴賷卅丞 丕賱賲丿乇丕亍 賱賱賲賳馗賾賲丞 丕賱賵胤賳賷賾丞 賱賱兀賲乇丕囟 丕賱毓賯賱賷丞 賵賴賷 賮賷 丕賱禺丕賲爻丞 賵丕賱孬賱丕孬賷賳 賮賯胤 賲賳 毓賲乇賴丕貙 爻乇丿鬲 賴賳丕 鬲噩乇亘丞 廿氐丕亘鬲賴丕 亘丕賱噩賱胤丞 丕賱丿賲丕睾賷賾丞 賵乇丨賱丞 卮賮丕卅賴丕 丕賱鬲賷 丕爻鬲睾乇賯鬲 賲丕 賷賯丕乇亘 7 爻賳賵丕鬲 賰丕賲賱丕鬲 兀賵 乇亘賲丕 賷夭賷丿貙 賱賰賳 賱賷爻鬲 賴賳丕 丕賱賲卮賰賱丞貙 丕賱賲卮賰賱丞 鬲賰賲賳 亘毓丿 賲乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩貙 丨賷孬 毓丕丿鬲 賰胤賮賱 氐睾賷乇 賰賲丕 賵氐賮鬲 賳賮爻賴丕貙 鬲鬲毓賱賾賲 賰賱賾 卮賷亍 賲賳 噩丿賷丿 賲賳 胤乇賷賯丞 丕賱兀賰賱 賵丕賱卮乇亘貙 丕賱鬲賵丕氐賱 丕賱賮賴賲賷 丨鬲賶 胤乇賷賯丞 乇亘胤 丕賱丨匕丕亍貙 賰賲丕 賵氐賱 亘賴丕 丕賱丨丕賱 廿賱賶 鬲爻丕丐賱 賲賴賲賾 丨賷孬 賯丕賱鬲 賯丕賱鬲 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘賴丕: (賰丕賳 賲禺賾賷 賲鬲囟乇賾乇賸丕 噩丿賸賾丕貙 賵賮賰賾乇鬲 賴賱 爻賷爻丨亘賵賳 賲賳賾賷 卮賴丕丿丞 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇丕賴責 廿賳賾賳賷 賱丕 兀鬲匕賰賾乇 丕賱丌賳 卮賷卅賸丕 賮賷 毓賱賲 丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨!)
賱胤丕賱賲丕 賰丕賳 丕賱丿賲丕睾 丕賱亘卮乇賷賾 賵賰賷賮賷賾丞 毓賲賱賴 賲賳 丕爻鬲賯亘丕賱 兀丿賾賯 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賷賵賲賳丕 賵賲毓丕賱噩鬲賴丕 賵賲賳 孬賲賾 丕賱鬲賮丕毓賱 賲毓賴丕 賰乇丿賾 賮毓賱 胤亘賷毓賷賾 賲賳 丕賱兀毓丕噩賷亘 丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 賷丨胤賽 丕賱毓賱賲 亘賰賱賾 鬲賮丕氐賷賱賴丕貙 賵賱毓賱賾 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱鬲噩丕乇亘 丕賱賲賱賴賲丞 鬲噩毓賱賳丕 賳賯丿賾乇 兀賰孬乇 賳毓賲丞 賴匕丕 丕賱爻賷賾丿 丕賱匕賷 賷爻賷胤乇 毓賱賶 賰賱 兀賯賵丕賱賳丕 賵兀賮毓丕賱賳丕 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賳丕 丕賱賷賵賲賷賾丞.
鬲賯賵賱 賮賷 乇丨賱鬲賴丕 丕賱卮賮丕卅賷賾丞:
"賱賯丿 賲賳丨鬲賳賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱噩賱胤丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀賳丕乇鬲 亘氐賷乇鬲賷 毓胤賷賾丞 賱丕 鬲賯丿賾乇 亘孬賲賳貙 賵賴賷 廿丿乇丕賰 兀賳賾 丕賱爻賱丕賲 丕賱毓賲賷賯 賱賷爻 爻賵賶 賮賰乇丞 兀賵 卮毓賵乇 賲乇丕賵睾 賵賳丕亍賺貙 賮兀賳 鬲禺鬲亘乇 丕賱爻賱丕賲 賮賷 丿丕禺賱賰貙 賱賷爻 賲毓賳丕賴 兀賳 鬲鬲丨賵賱 丨賷丕鬲賰 廿賱賶 賳毓賷賲賺 丿丕卅賲. 廿賳賾賴 賷毓賳賷 賮賯胤 亘兀賳賾賰 賯丕丿乇賹 毓賱賶 丕賱賵賱賵噩 廿賱賶 丨丕賱丞賺 賲賳 丕賱爻賰賷賳丞 丕賱匕賴賳賷賾丞 賵爻胤 賮賵囟賶 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱毓丕乇賲丞"
賱胤丕賱賲丕 賰丕賳 丕賱丿賲丕睾 丕賱亘卮乇賷賾 賵賰賷賮賷賾丞 毓賲賱賴 賲賳 丕爻鬲賯亘丕賱 兀丿賾賯 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賷賵賲賳丕 賵賲毓丕賱噩鬲賴丕 賵賲賳 孬賲賾 丕賱鬲賮丕毓賱 賲毓賴丕 賰乇丿賾 賮毓賱 胤亘賷毓賷賾 賲賳 丕賱兀毓丕噩賷亘 丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 賷丨胤賽 丕賱毓賱賲 亘賰賱賾 鬲賮丕氐賷賱賴丕貙 賵賱毓賱賾 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱鬲噩丕乇亘 丕賱賲賱賴賲丞 鬲噩毓賱賳丕 賳賯丿賾乇 兀賰孬乇 賳毓賲丞 賴匕丕 丕賱爻賷賾丿 丕賱匕賷 賷爻賷胤乇 毓賱賶 賰賱 兀賯賵丕賱賳丕 賵兀賮毓丕賱賳丕 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賳丕 丕賱賷賵賲賷賾丞.
鬲賯賵賱 賮賷 乇丨賱鬲賴丕 丕賱卮賮丕卅賷賾丞:
"賱賯丿 賲賳丨鬲賳賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱噩賱胤丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀賳丕乇鬲 亘氐賷乇鬲賷 毓胤賷賾丞 賱丕 鬲賯丿賾乇 亘孬賲賳貙 賵賴賷 廿丿乇丕賰 兀賳賾 丕賱爻賱丕賲 丕賱毓賲賷賯 賱賷爻 爻賵賶 賮賰乇丞 兀賵 卮毓賵乇 賲乇丕賵睾 賵賳丕亍賺貙 賮兀賳 鬲禺鬲亘乇 丕賱爻賱丕賲 賮賷 丿丕禺賱賰貙 賱賷爻 賲毓賳丕賴 兀賳 鬲鬲丨賵賱 丨賷丕鬲賰 廿賱賶 賳毓賷賲賺 丿丕卅賲. 廿賳賾賴 賷毓賳賷 賮賯胤 亘兀賳賾賰 賯丕丿乇賹 毓賱賶 丕賱賵賱賵噩 廿賱賶 丨丕賱丞賺 賲賳 丕賱爻賰賷賳丞 丕賱匕賴賳賷賾丞 賵爻胤 賮賵囟賶 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱毓丕乇賲丞"
August 4, 2019
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賷丕賱賱賴 貙 廿賳 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賰丕卅賳 賴卮 爻乇賷毓 丕賱毓胤亘 貙 " 噩賷賱 鬲賷賱賵乇 "
毓丕賱賲丞 賵兀禺氐丕卅賷丞 丕賱賲禺 賵丕賱兀毓氐丕亘 鬲鬲毓乇囟 廿賱賶 噩賱胤丞 賮賷 丕賱賮氐
丕賱兀賷爻乇 賲賳 丕賱丿賲丕睾 鬲購賮賯丿賴丕 賯丿乇丕鬲 賲鬲毓丿丿丞 賵鬲賲囟賷 賮賷 乇丨賱丞
毓賱丕噩 丕爻鬲賲乇鬲 賱兀毓賵丕賲 賴匕賴 丕賱賲乇兀丞 丕賱賲爻鬲賯賱丞 丕賱賲毓鬲賲丿丞 賰賱賷丕賸 毓賱賶
匕丕鬲賴丕 鬲噩丿 賳賮爻賴丕 亘賷賳 賱賷賱丞 賵囟丨丕賴丕 鬲毓賵丿 賱鬲氐亘丨 胤賮賱丞 賲賳 噩丿賷丿
鬲鬲賱賯賶 丕賱乇毓丕賷丞 賲賳 賵丕賱丿鬲賴丕 賵鬲鬲毓賱賲 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賵丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 賵丕賱鬲丨丿孬 .
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丕賱賰鬲丕亘 毓亘丕乇丞 毓賳 爻乇丿 賱兀丨丿丕孬 丨賷丕丞 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇丞 鬲賷賱賵乇 賯亘賱 丕賱噩賱胤丞
賵兀孬賳丕亍賴丕 貙 賵鬲噩丕賵夭 丨丿賵丿 丕賱爻賷乇 丕賱匕丕鬲賷丞 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲胤乇賯鬲 亘賴 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞
廿賱賶 亘毓囟 丕賱賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 丕賱毓賱賲賷丞 賵丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨賷丞 賱賰賷 賳賮賴賲 兀賱賷丞 毓賲賱
丕賱丿賲丕睾 丕賱亘卮乇賷 賵賳爻鬲賵毓亘 丕賱兀爻亘丕亘 丕賱鬲賷 兀丿鬲 廿賱賶 鬲丿賴賵乇 賯丿乇丕鬲
丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 丕賱丨賷賵賷丞 .
賵毓賱賶 丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 兀賴賲賷丞 丕賱毓賳丕賷丞 丕賱胤亘賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 丨囟賷鬲 亘賴丕 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞
賲賳 賯亘賱 夭賲賱丕亍賴丕 賵丕賱廿禺鬲氐丕氐賷賷賳 廿賱丕 兀賳賴丕 兀賰丿鬲 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 賲乇丞
兀賳 丕賱丿毓賲 丕賱毓丕胤賮賷 賵丕賱賳賮爻賷 賰丕賳 兀賴賲 毓賵丕賲賱 鬲卮丕賮賷賴丕 賮鬲賯賵賱 :
" 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賱賲 鬲賮鬲丨 毓賷賳賷 毓賱賶 噩賲丕賱 丕賱毓賯賱 丕賱亘卮乇賷 賵賲乇賵賳鬲賴 貙
賵賱賰賳 兀賷囟丕賸 毓賱賶 賰乇賲 丕賱乇賵丨 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 賵爻禺丕卅賴丕 貙 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賳丕爻
丕賱乇丕卅毓賷賳 睾匕賾賵丕 賯賱亘賷 亘賲丨亘鬲賴賲 賵兀賳丕 賲購賲鬲賳丞 賱賰賱 丕賱胤賷亘丞 賵丕賱廿丨爻丕賳
丕賱賱匕賷賳 賲購賳丨鬲賴賲丕 ".
賰丕賳鬲 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇丞 噩賷賱 賲丨丕乇亘丞 丨賯賷賯丞 貙 賱賲 鬲購氐丕亘 亘丕賱噩夭毓 兀賵
丕賱禺賵賮 毓賱賶 丕賱毓賰爻 賰丕賳鬲 卮亘賴 爻毓賷丿丞 賵賲賲鬲賳丞 賱賴匕賴 丕賱噩賱胤丞
賱兀賳賴丕 賰卮賮鬲 賱賴丕 丕賱賲毓賳賶 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷 賱賱丨賷丕丞 賮鬲賯賵賱 " 賱賯丿 賲賳丨鬲賳賷
鬲賱賰 丕賱噩賱胤丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀賳丕乇鬲 亘氐賷乇鬲賷 毓胤賷丞 賱丕 鬲購賯丿乇 亘孬賲賳 貙 賵賴賷
廿丿乇丕賰 兀賳 丕賱爻賱丕賲 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 丕賱毓賲賷賯 賱賷爻 爻賵賶 賮賰乇丞 兀賵 卮毓賵乇
賲乇賵丕睾 賵賳丕亍賺 ". " 賵賱賰賷 賳鬲賲賰賳 賲賳 丕賱毓賷卮 賮賷 丕賱賱丨馗丞 丕賱兀賳賷丞 毓賱賷賳丕
兀賳 賳亘胤卅 賵鬲賷乇丞 毓賯賵賱賳丕 亘賵毓賷 ".
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賲丕匕丕 亘毓丿 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 責
兀丨賷丕賳丕 賵噩賵丿 丕賱卮賷亍 丕賱丿丕卅賲 丨賵賱賳丕 賵亘賳丕 賷賮賯丿賳丕 丕賱廿丨爻丕爻 亘賵噩賵丿賴
賵賱丕 賳爻鬲賵毓亘 賴匕丕 丕賱賵噩賵丿 賵賳卮毓乇 亘兀賴賲賷鬲廿賱丕 毓賳丿賲丕 賳賮賯丿賴 兀賲丕
亘卮賰賱 噩夭卅賷 兀賵 亘卮賰賱 鬲丕賲 賮賷 鬲噩乇亘丞 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇丞 噩賷賱 賲丕 賷購毓賷丿
鬲乇鬲賷亘 賯賵丕卅賲 丕賱卮賰乇 賱賱賴 毓賱賶 賰賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱賳毓賲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲爻賰購賳賳丕 賵賳噩賴賱賴丕 .
丕賱丨賲丿賱賱賴 鉂わ笍 .
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賱賱賰丕鬲亘丞 賲丨丕囟乇丞 毓賱賶 賲賵賯毓 TEd 鬲丨丿孬鬲 亘賴丕 毓賳 賴匕賴 丕賱鬲噩乇亘丞 .
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#鬲賲鬲
#兀亘噩丿賷丞_賮乇丨 5/5
#丕賱噩賱胤丞冲丕賱鬲賷冲兀賳丕乇鬲冲亘氐賷乇鬲賷
丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 #噩賷賱_亘賵賱鬲賷_鬲賷賱賵乇 ~馃摎馃尭
氐丕丿乇 毓賳 #丿丕乇_賲爻毓賶 賱賱賳卮乇 賵丕賱鬲賵夭賷毓 ~.
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賷丕賱賱賴 貙 廿賳 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賰丕卅賳 賴卮 爻乇賷毓 丕賱毓胤亘 貙 " 噩賷賱 鬲賷賱賵乇 "
毓丕賱賲丞 賵兀禺氐丕卅賷丞 丕賱賲禺 賵丕賱兀毓氐丕亘 鬲鬲毓乇囟 廿賱賶 噩賱胤丞 賮賷 丕賱賮氐
丕賱兀賷爻乇 賲賳 丕賱丿賲丕睾 鬲購賮賯丿賴丕 賯丿乇丕鬲 賲鬲毓丿丿丞 賵鬲賲囟賷 賮賷 乇丨賱丞
毓賱丕噩 丕爻鬲賲乇鬲 賱兀毓賵丕賲 賴匕賴 丕賱賲乇兀丞 丕賱賲爻鬲賯賱丞 丕賱賲毓鬲賲丿丞 賰賱賷丕賸 毓賱賶
匕丕鬲賴丕 鬲噩丿 賳賮爻賴丕 亘賷賳 賱賷賱丞 賵囟丨丕賴丕 鬲毓賵丿 賱鬲氐亘丨 胤賮賱丞 賲賳 噩丿賷丿
鬲鬲賱賯賶 丕賱乇毓丕賷丞 賲賳 賵丕賱丿鬲賴丕 賵鬲鬲毓賱賲 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 賵丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 賵丕賱鬲丨丿孬 .
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丕賱賰鬲丕亘 毓亘丕乇丞 毓賳 爻乇丿 賱兀丨丿丕孬 丨賷丕丞 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇丞 鬲賷賱賵乇 賯亘賱 丕賱噩賱胤丞
賵兀孬賳丕亍賴丕 貙 賵鬲噩丕賵夭 丨丿賵丿 丕賱爻賷乇 丕賱匕丕鬲賷丞 毓賳丿賲丕 鬲胤乇賯鬲 亘賴 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞
廿賱賶 亘毓囟 丕賱賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 丕賱毓賱賲賷丞 賵丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨賷丞 賱賰賷 賳賮賴賲 兀賱賷丞 毓賲賱
丕賱丿賲丕睾 丕賱亘卮乇賷 賵賳爻鬲賵毓亘 丕賱兀爻亘丕亘 丕賱鬲賷 兀丿鬲 廿賱賶 鬲丿賴賵乇 賯丿乇丕鬲
丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 丕賱丨賷賵賷丞 .
賵毓賱賶 丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 兀賴賲賷丞 丕賱毓賳丕賷丞 丕賱胤亘賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 丨囟賷鬲 亘賴丕 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞
賲賳 賯亘賱 夭賲賱丕亍賴丕 賵丕賱廿禺鬲氐丕氐賷賷賳 廿賱丕 兀賳賴丕 兀賰丿鬲 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 賲乇丞
兀賳 丕賱丿毓賲 丕賱毓丕胤賮賷 賵丕賱賳賮爻賷 賰丕賳 兀賴賲 毓賵丕賲賱 鬲卮丕賮賷賴丕 賮鬲賯賵賱 :
" 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賱賲 鬲賮鬲丨 毓賷賳賷 毓賱賶 噩賲丕賱 丕賱毓賯賱 丕賱亘卮乇賷 賵賲乇賵賳鬲賴 貙
賵賱賰賳 兀賷囟丕賸 毓賱賶 賰乇賲 丕賱乇賵丨 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 賵爻禺丕卅賴丕 貙 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賳丕爻
丕賱乇丕卅毓賷賳 睾匕賾賵丕 賯賱亘賷 亘賲丨亘鬲賴賲 賵兀賳丕 賲購賲鬲賳丞 賱賰賱 丕賱胤賷亘丞 賵丕賱廿丨爻丕賳
丕賱賱匕賷賳 賲購賳丨鬲賴賲丕 ".
賰丕賳鬲 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇丞 噩賷賱 賲丨丕乇亘丞 丨賯賷賯丞 貙 賱賲 鬲購氐丕亘 亘丕賱噩夭毓 兀賵
丕賱禺賵賮 毓賱賶 丕賱毓賰爻 賰丕賳鬲 卮亘賴 爻毓賷丿丞 賵賲賲鬲賳丞 賱賴匕賴 丕賱噩賱胤丞
賱兀賳賴丕 賰卮賮鬲 賱賴丕 丕賱賲毓賳賶 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷 賱賱丨賷丕丞 賮鬲賯賵賱 " 賱賯丿 賲賳丨鬲賳賷
鬲賱賰 丕賱噩賱胤丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀賳丕乇鬲 亘氐賷乇鬲賷 毓胤賷丞 賱丕 鬲購賯丿乇 亘孬賲賳 貙 賵賴賷
廿丿乇丕賰 兀賳 丕賱爻賱丕賲 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷 丕賱毓賲賷賯 賱賷爻 爻賵賶 賮賰乇丞 兀賵 卮毓賵乇
賲乇賵丕睾 賵賳丕亍賺 ". " 賵賱賰賷 賳鬲賲賰賳 賲賳 丕賱毓賷卮 賮賷 丕賱賱丨馗丞 丕賱兀賳賷丞 毓賱賷賳丕
兀賳 賳亘胤卅 賵鬲賷乇丞 毓賯賵賱賳丕 亘賵毓賷 ".
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賲丕匕丕 亘毓丿 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 責
兀丨賷丕賳丕 賵噩賵丿 丕賱卮賷亍 丕賱丿丕卅賲 丨賵賱賳丕 賵亘賳丕 賷賮賯丿賳丕 丕賱廿丨爻丕爻 亘賵噩賵丿賴
賵賱丕 賳爻鬲賵毓亘 賴匕丕 丕賱賵噩賵丿 賵賳卮毓乇 亘兀賴賲賷鬲廿賱丕 毓賳丿賲丕 賳賮賯丿賴 兀賲丕
亘卮賰賱 噩夭卅賷 兀賵 亘卮賰賱 鬲丕賲 賮賷 鬲噩乇亘丞 丕賱丿賰鬲賵乇丞 噩賷賱 賲丕 賷購毓賷丿
鬲乇鬲賷亘 賯賵丕卅賲 丕賱卮賰乇 賱賱賴 毓賱賶 賰賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱賳毓賲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲爻賰購賳賳丕 賵賳噩賴賱賴丕 .
丕賱丨賲丿賱賱賴 鉂わ笍 .
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賱賱賰丕鬲亘丞 賲丨丕囟乇丞 毓賱賶 賲賵賯毓 TEd 鬲丨丿孬鬲 亘賴丕 毓賳 賴匕賴 丕賱鬲噩乇亘丞 .
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#鬲賲鬲
#兀亘噩丿賷丞_賮乇丨 5/5
#丕賱噩賱胤丞冲丕賱鬲賷冲兀賳丕乇鬲冲亘氐賷乇鬲賷
丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 #噩賷賱_亘賵賱鬲賷_鬲賷賱賵乇 ~馃摎馃尭
氐丕丿乇 毓賳 #丿丕乇_賲爻毓賶 賱賱賳卮乇 賵丕賱鬲賵夭賷毓 ~.
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May 16, 2020
Amazing story about a neuroscientist who observes herself as she has a stroke. She is not expected to recover, but with her knowledge, the dedication of and help from her mother as well as keeping naysayers out of her life Bolte regained all of her pre-stroke functioning. An important and inspirational memoir about the ability of the brain to heal, otherwise known as neuroplasticity. Read this or listen to Bolte's amazing Ted talk.
September 19, 2012
I absolutely couldn't stand this book. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that until I was over a third of the way into it, at which point I had to finish it, detesting myself the entire time.
The woman who wrote this book is a neuroanatomist who had a unique and amazing opportunity to document the experience of having a hemorrhagic stroke from someone who understands how different parts of the brain function.
That being said, she is not a brain surgeon. She is not a clinician. And yet from the way she writes this book, she acts as though she knows more than everyone who took care of her, without a real understanding of practical application.
For example, she criticizes the nurses who wake her up on an hourly or near hourly basis to do neuro exams--not realizing that is, in fact, a safety check designed to save her life if her bleed became worse. She criticizes doctors for asking questions that she could not answer such as "Who is the president?" and felt they should have asked questions that she would have actually been able to answer--such as who the president was married to--not recognizing that the point of asking a simple question such as "who is the president?" is not an effort to make her feel good about herself, but to recognize deficits and thus help her to work past them. It would be fruitless to only ask questions she knew she could get right.
I felt that the entire book was her outcry to the world, her defense about her embarrassment of being a stroke victim and to show how actually competent she was the entire time. She writes as though she is the only person ever who this has happened to. Although hemorrhagic strokes are the least common kind of stroke, we see them all the time where I work. We don't judge people who are having strokes because they cannot speak properly--we care for them, we monitor them, we help them. No educated medical professional would accuse a stroke victim of being stupid--and yet she seems to feel the need to show everyone how smart and aware she is.
Instead of taking this opportunity to truly examine the human condition of stroke victims everywhere, she makes a narcissistic, egotistical, and what I view as a dangerously false view of the stroke experience. I would be highly concerned for family members of my patients and what they may take away from reading this book. The author, although very well versed in brain anatomy, has a poor understanding of how intensive care and hospital care really work--but because of her degree and viewpoint, people may mistake her opinions for truth.
The good things I took away from this: a reminder of what it is like to be the patient (always important to keep in mind. ) I agreed with her about the importance of sleep and healing the brain--with the caveat that a patient's safety (you know, ensuring they don't herniate their brain)--should come first, depending on the gravity of the situation. I enjoyed her contrast of left and right brain. Other than that, I wish I hadn't my time and highly recommend that you don't waste yours. There are other, better, and more accurate materials out there for your reading pleasure.
PS: This is the only negative book review I have ever added to this website. That's how concerned I am about the spread of misinformation delivered by this book.
PPS: You would think that someone with a PhD with a career in brain science would have known better than to get on a treadmill and take a shower while being actively aware that she had stroke symptoms. This should discredit her story from the start. Time is brain, people! If you have stroke symptoms, call 911!
The woman who wrote this book is a neuroanatomist who had a unique and amazing opportunity to document the experience of having a hemorrhagic stroke from someone who understands how different parts of the brain function.
That being said, she is not a brain surgeon. She is not a clinician. And yet from the way she writes this book, she acts as though she knows more than everyone who took care of her, without a real understanding of practical application.
For example, she criticizes the nurses who wake her up on an hourly or near hourly basis to do neuro exams--not realizing that is, in fact, a safety check designed to save her life if her bleed became worse. She criticizes doctors for asking questions that she could not answer such as "Who is the president?" and felt they should have asked questions that she would have actually been able to answer--such as who the president was married to--not recognizing that the point of asking a simple question such as "who is the president?" is not an effort to make her feel good about herself, but to recognize deficits and thus help her to work past them. It would be fruitless to only ask questions she knew she could get right.
I felt that the entire book was her outcry to the world, her defense about her embarrassment of being a stroke victim and to show how actually competent she was the entire time. She writes as though she is the only person ever who this has happened to. Although hemorrhagic strokes are the least common kind of stroke, we see them all the time where I work. We don't judge people who are having strokes because they cannot speak properly--we care for them, we monitor them, we help them. No educated medical professional would accuse a stroke victim of being stupid--and yet she seems to feel the need to show everyone how smart and aware she is.
Instead of taking this opportunity to truly examine the human condition of stroke victims everywhere, she makes a narcissistic, egotistical, and what I view as a dangerously false view of the stroke experience. I would be highly concerned for family members of my patients and what they may take away from reading this book. The author, although very well versed in brain anatomy, has a poor understanding of how intensive care and hospital care really work--but because of her degree and viewpoint, people may mistake her opinions for truth.
The good things I took away from this: a reminder of what it is like to be the patient (always important to keep in mind. ) I agreed with her about the importance of sleep and healing the brain--with the caveat that a patient's safety (you know, ensuring they don't herniate their brain)--should come first, depending on the gravity of the situation. I enjoyed her contrast of left and right brain. Other than that, I wish I hadn't my time and highly recommend that you don't waste yours. There are other, better, and more accurate materials out there for your reading pleasure.
PS: This is the only negative book review I have ever added to this website. That's how concerned I am about the spread of misinformation delivered by this book.
PPS: You would think that someone with a PhD with a career in brain science would have known better than to get on a treadmill and take a shower while being actively aware that she had stroke symptoms. This should discredit her story from the start. Time is brain, people! If you have stroke symptoms, call 911!
July 22, 2008
For me, the most fascinating part of this book is the description of the actual stroke and the immediate aftermath. To have suffered such a traumatic brain injury and live to tell about it in such detail is amazing. Doubly amazing for verbalizing what a brain is like when it goes non-verbal.
One funny detail during the stroke is that, while she's rapidly losing the ability to conceptualize numbers and language, somehow part of her brain still knew she needed HMO approval prior to using emergency services -- and found the HMO card and called her HMO doctor without really knowing what a doctor or numbers really were. Fear of medical bills is apparently deeply entrenched in our neural circuitry. Which is also the only reason I can think of to explain her medical collegue not calling for an ambulance after she contacted him. Oh, the brain cells that were lost simply because he drove over rather than letting paramedics quickly deal with the situation.
But that's just my left brain talking. While I loved the perspective of what it's like to be temporarily without your left hemisphere, by the end of the book, I felt she was overly left-brain negative. Once the narrative is no longer propelled forward by illness and recovery, the language becomes too cutesy puppies, rainbows, and ponies, pseudo-spiritual for my taste. Lovely message but true spirituality balances the good with real issues, rather than pleasant platitudes.
Five stars for the fascinating insight into strokes and brain function minus one star for the overly cutesy writing towards the end.
One funny detail during the stroke is that, while she's rapidly losing the ability to conceptualize numbers and language, somehow part of her brain still knew she needed HMO approval prior to using emergency services -- and found the HMO card and called her HMO doctor without really knowing what a doctor or numbers really were. Fear of medical bills is apparently deeply entrenched in our neural circuitry. Which is also the only reason I can think of to explain her medical collegue not calling for an ambulance after she contacted him. Oh, the brain cells that were lost simply because he drove over rather than letting paramedics quickly deal with the situation.
But that's just my left brain talking. While I loved the perspective of what it's like to be temporarily without your left hemisphere, by the end of the book, I felt she was overly left-brain negative. Once the narrative is no longer propelled forward by illness and recovery, the language becomes too cutesy puppies, rainbows, and ponies, pseudo-spiritual for my taste. Lovely message but true spirituality balances the good with real issues, rather than pleasant platitudes.
Five stars for the fascinating insight into strokes and brain function minus one star for the overly cutesy writing towards the end.
April 22, 2023
"賱賰賱 賲禺 亘卮乇賷 賯氐丞貙 賵賴匕賴 賯氐鬲賷 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賲毓 賲禺賷"
鬲丨賰賷 賱賳丕 丿. 噩賷賱 鬲賷賱賵乇 丕賱毓丕賱賲丞 丕賱賲禺鬲氐賴 賮賷 丕賱賲禺貙 毓賳 鬲噩乇亘鬲賴丕 丕賱賮乇賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賶 賲乇鬲 亘賴丕 丨賷賳 兀氐丕亘鬲賴丕 噩賱胤丞 賲賮丕噩卅丞 賮賷 丕賱賲禺貙 賲鬲鬲亘毓賴 丕賱兀毓乇丕囟 賵丕賱賲卮丕毓乇貙 賵丕賱兀噩賵丕亍 丕賱鬲賷 丕禺鬲亘乇鬲賴丕 賱丨馗丞 亘賱丨馗丞貙 孬賲 乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賵兀賵噩丕毓賴貙 賵賲賰丕亘丿丕鬲 丕賱鬲毓賱賲 賵丕賱鬲兀賴賱.
賵賷賴丿賮 賰鬲丕亘賴丕 廿賱賶:
鈻笌 丕賱鬲賵毓賷丞 亘兀賴賲 丕賱兀賲乇丕囟 賵兀賰孬乇賴丕 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕賸貙 賵賴賵 丕賱廿氐丕亘丕鬲 丕賱丿賲丕睾賷丞 賵丕賱噩賱胤丕鬲.
鈻笌丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳 噩賲丕賱 賵賲乇賵賳丞 丕賱毓賯賱 丕賱亘卮乇賷貙 賵賯丿乇鬲賴 丕賱胤亘賷毓賷丞 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲兀賯賱賲 賲毓 丕賱賲鬲睾賷乇丕鬲貙 賵丕賱爻賷乇 賯丿賲丕賸 賮賷 毓賲賱賷丞 丕賱鬲卮丕賮賷.
銆嬞冐ж� 氐賵鬲賶 賲丐孬乇貙 賷毓賷亘賴 亘毓囟 丕賱鬲賰乇丕乇 ..
鬲丨賰賷 賱賳丕 丿. 噩賷賱 鬲賷賱賵乇 丕賱毓丕賱賲丞 丕賱賲禺鬲氐賴 賮賷 丕賱賲禺貙 毓賳 鬲噩乇亘鬲賴丕 丕賱賮乇賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賶 賲乇鬲 亘賴丕 丨賷賳 兀氐丕亘鬲賴丕 噩賱胤丞 賲賮丕噩卅丞 賮賷 丕賱賲禺貙 賲鬲鬲亘毓賴 丕賱兀毓乇丕囟 賵丕賱賲卮丕毓乇貙 賵丕賱兀噩賵丕亍 丕賱鬲賷 丕禺鬲亘乇鬲賴丕 賱丨馗丞 亘賱丨馗丞貙 孬賲 乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 賵兀賵噩丕毓賴貙 賵賲賰丕亘丿丕鬲 丕賱鬲毓賱賲 賵丕賱鬲兀賴賱.
賵賷賴丿賮 賰鬲丕亘賴丕 廿賱賶:
鈻笌 丕賱鬲賵毓賷丞 亘兀賴賲 丕賱兀賲乇丕囟 賵兀賰孬乇賴丕 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕賸貙 賵賴賵 丕賱廿氐丕亘丕鬲 丕賱丿賲丕睾賷丞 賵丕賱噩賱胤丕鬲.
鈻笌丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳 噩賲丕賱 賵賲乇賵賳丞 丕賱毓賯賱 丕賱亘卮乇賷貙 賵賯丿乇鬲賴 丕賱胤亘賷毓賷丞 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲兀賯賱賲 賲毓 丕賱賲鬲睾賷乇丕鬲貙 賵丕賱爻賷乇 賯丿賲丕賸 賮賷 毓賲賱賷丞 丕賱鬲卮丕賮賷.
銆嬞冐ж� 氐賵鬲賶 賲丐孬乇貙 賷毓賷亘賴 亘毓囟 丕賱鬲賰乇丕乇 ..
February 24, 2009
Warning: This is long, contains ranting, and is rather harsh at times.
From a biology perspective, this book was crazy cool, as are most things biological. The brain is ridiculously amazing. It completely blows my mind whenever I think about it. However, from a writing perspective, I was not a fan.
I would now like to preface the rest of my analytical, left-brain comments by saying that: The author had a stroke, it is absolutely incredible how well she has recovered, and I have no idea whatsoever how the stroke may have affected her writing capabilities. Also, I really did approach this expecting to really, really like it, so this one can't be blamed on a negative attitude. That said, I found the book ridiculously redundant. I'd read one paragraph, move on to the next, and then have to return to the previous paragraph to try and find the difference between the two (other than word order). This frustrated me, and I felt she could have condensed things from 20 chapters to about 8. The parts that I really appreciated were her account of the actual experience of having a stroke and the initial chapters that explained some basic brain science. I'm sure the description of her recovery is very helpful to those dealing with a stroke or helping someone else deal with it, but this was the point where the repetition got out of control. After about page 100, it took serious effort for me to finish (and that rarely happens).
Also, I was unaware when I began the book that the second half would be filled with motivational, self-help type crap. Had I known that, I probably would not have read it. That kind of thing drives me insane (and yes, I DO realize that I'm allowing myself to be driven insane) because they try to make it sound easy, and it's not. What particularly bothered me in this instance was that only after the author suffered tremendous brain trauma was she able to "step to the right [side of her brain:]" and, to simplify, let a bunch of crap go. I, however, have not suffered from a stroke, still experience the two hemispheres of my brain as a single consciousness, and am generally much harder-pressed to "step to the right." So back off, lady!
Some other notes: When I first heard the title, I thought it was very clever. However, I began to worry after the 5th or so time she used it in the first 2-3 chapters. And sure enough, the phrase didn't go away. It instead became so overused that it practically triggered my gag reflex by the end of the book. Also, the purpose of having an editor is to make a book better, especially by adding/removing things that will drive people to want to burn the book. This editor was either asleep, drunk, or high, as evidenced by the truly apalling and nauseating over-use of italics and exclamation points.
From a biology perspective, this book was crazy cool, as are most things biological. The brain is ridiculously amazing. It completely blows my mind whenever I think about it. However, from a writing perspective, I was not a fan.
I would now like to preface the rest of my analytical, left-brain comments by saying that: The author had a stroke, it is absolutely incredible how well she has recovered, and I have no idea whatsoever how the stroke may have affected her writing capabilities. Also, I really did approach this expecting to really, really like it, so this one can't be blamed on a negative attitude. That said, I found the book ridiculously redundant. I'd read one paragraph, move on to the next, and then have to return to the previous paragraph to try and find the difference between the two (other than word order). This frustrated me, and I felt she could have condensed things from 20 chapters to about 8. The parts that I really appreciated were her account of the actual experience of having a stroke and the initial chapters that explained some basic brain science. I'm sure the description of her recovery is very helpful to those dealing with a stroke or helping someone else deal with it, but this was the point where the repetition got out of control. After about page 100, it took serious effort for me to finish (and that rarely happens).
Also, I was unaware when I began the book that the second half would be filled with motivational, self-help type crap. Had I known that, I probably would not have read it. That kind of thing drives me insane (and yes, I DO realize that I'm allowing myself to be driven insane) because they try to make it sound easy, and it's not. What particularly bothered me in this instance was that only after the author suffered tremendous brain trauma was she able to "step to the right [side of her brain:]" and, to simplify, let a bunch of crap go. I, however, have not suffered from a stroke, still experience the two hemispheres of my brain as a single consciousness, and am generally much harder-pressed to "step to the right." So back off, lady!
Some other notes: When I first heard the title, I thought it was very clever. However, I began to worry after the 5th or so time she used it in the first 2-3 chapters. And sure enough, the phrase didn't go away. It instead became so overused that it practically triggered my gag reflex by the end of the book. Also, the purpose of having an editor is to make a book better, especially by adding/removing things that will drive people to want to burn the book. This editor was either asleep, drunk, or high, as evidenced by the truly apalling and nauseating over-use of italics and exclamation points.
May 29, 2016
There's great value here - but you have to wade through a lot to get to it. Taylor's step-by-step recalling of her hemorrhagic left-hemisphere stroke was both enlightening and tedious. She was so acutely aware of what was happening - enough to describe in full detail here - but unable to really do anything about it. Once discovered, completely unable to comprehend and communicate, she goes through months of recovery, including a surgery to clear the blood clot. Her mother gently and compassionately cares for her, and over time and with a team of help, she learns to speak, read, move, and drive again.
I wasn't expecting such a metaphysical post-stroke synthesis in the second-half of the book, but I quite liked it - copying quotes down for future reference. (It was because of this section that I decided to go with 3-stars for the review - the beginning was 2-star territory for me.)
Taylor describes neuroplasticity in the simplest of terms. She describes the power to exert control over what areas of her brain to "turn back on" after the stroke. She chose to leave the anxiety "circuitry" unwired, along with the negativity and ego-centers of the left hemisphere. It's an interesting account, but I feel that there is a lot more to the story. I am curious, as this stroke occurred 20 years ago now in 1996, how Taylor's life continued to change after this altering event.
It was a quick read, and I found the section on caring for someone who is in this non-verbal state especially helpful.
I wasn't expecting such a metaphysical post-stroke synthesis in the second-half of the book, but I quite liked it - copying quotes down for future reference. (It was because of this section that I decided to go with 3-stars for the review - the beginning was 2-star territory for me.)
Since the hemorrhage, my eyes have been opened to how much choice I actually have about what goes on between my ears.
Taylor describes neuroplasticity in the simplest of terms. She describes the power to exert control over what areas of her brain to "turn back on" after the stroke. She chose to leave the anxiety "circuitry" unwired, along with the negativity and ego-centers of the left hemisphere. It's an interesting account, but I feel that there is a lot more to the story. I am curious, as this stroke occurred 20 years ago now in 1996, how Taylor's life continued to change after this altering event.
It was a quick read, and I found the section on caring for someone who is in this non-verbal state especially helpful.
May 10, 2010
Everyone who has ever had a stroke must have this book read to them, slowly. Everyone who ever knew anyone who had a stroke must read this book. The author was a brain scientist with a Ph.D. in neuroanatomy. She described her experience of having a stroke, the loss of her faculties, her surgery, and recovery over a period of almost a decade, to someone like the woman she was before the stroke.
Her description of how to help a stroke victim on their return from a hospital are remarkable. The relationship between herself and her mother, who taught her how to see and think and read and move again, is remarkable and touching. Most important, it offers proof and hope to stroke victims and their families for as complete a recovery as is possible.
If someone you know has a stroke, or if a family member or close friend has a stroke, but this book for them and the people who love them ASAP. I keep a couple of spare copies on hand to give away. There is one in my car in case I need one while I am at a hospital.
Her description of how to help a stroke victim on their return from a hospital are remarkable. The relationship between herself and her mother, who taught her how to see and think and read and move again, is remarkable and touching. Most important, it offers proof and hope to stroke victims and their families for as complete a recovery as is possible.
If someone you know has a stroke, or if a family member or close friend has a stroke, but this book for them and the people who love them ASAP. I keep a couple of spare copies on hand to give away. There is one in my car in case I need one while I am at a hospital.
July 2, 2014
You couldn't invent a more interesting premise: Dr. Taylor, a brain scientist, has a major stroke and goes through years of rehabilitation after the left hemisphere of her brain is severely damaged. She ultimately recovers and records her detailed memories of the stroke and its aftereffects.
Dr. Taylor has given a talk on this subject at a TED Conference -- see the video at
This is what drew me to reading My Stroke of Insight, and the book does deliver on its promise before it veers off into territory that I couldn't quite appreciate.
Dr. Taylor begins with some basic, fundamental brain science, to set the scene. It's written to be understandable to the layperson, and succeeds on that account. She then describes the day of her stroke, combining recollections of her experience with reminders of the science behind the events that occurred.
This is fascinating stuff, allowing us to satisfy our curiosity and learn something at the same time.
Then, Dr. Taylor spends the rest of the book sharing her recovery experience, including the epiphany that she had as a result of the stroke. She explains that her damaged left hemisphere gave her right hemisphere a chance to flourish, and thus taught her the value of her right hemisphere. She contrasts her blissful experience of right-brained living with our culture's emphasis on the left hemisphere's reason, task-orientation and linear thinking.
She has a point -- but I didn't really appreciate the feeling that I was reading a self-help book with no clear path to actually helping one's self! This part of the book features too much repetition, and too many shiny promises of bliss awaiting us, if we only knew how to get there. Short of having a stroke, all we get is advice that amounts to: meditate, and tell your left hemisphere to be quiet. Prune it back. It sounds good in theory, but this is slippery stuff.
I recommend this book for its unique look into how our brains work and what happens when they go wrong. Just know, going in, that you may or may not appreciate the unusual combination of science, memoir and self-help.
Dr. Taylor has given a talk on this subject at a TED Conference -- see the video at
This is what drew me to reading My Stroke of Insight, and the book does deliver on its promise before it veers off into territory that I couldn't quite appreciate.
Dr. Taylor begins with some basic, fundamental brain science, to set the scene. It's written to be understandable to the layperson, and succeeds on that account. She then describes the day of her stroke, combining recollections of her experience with reminders of the science behind the events that occurred.
This is fascinating stuff, allowing us to satisfy our curiosity and learn something at the same time.
Then, Dr. Taylor spends the rest of the book sharing her recovery experience, including the epiphany that she had as a result of the stroke. She explains that her damaged left hemisphere gave her right hemisphere a chance to flourish, and thus taught her the value of her right hemisphere. She contrasts her blissful experience of right-brained living with our culture's emphasis on the left hemisphere's reason, task-orientation and linear thinking.
She has a point -- but I didn't really appreciate the feeling that I was reading a self-help book with no clear path to actually helping one's self! This part of the book features too much repetition, and too many shiny promises of bliss awaiting us, if we only knew how to get there. Short of having a stroke, all we get is advice that amounts to: meditate, and tell your left hemisphere to be quiet. Prune it back. It sounds good in theory, but this is slippery stuff.
I recommend this book for its unique look into how our brains work and what happens when they go wrong. Just know, going in, that you may or may not appreciate the unusual combination of science, memoir and self-help.
March 16, 2020
鬲噩乇賷 丕賱毓丕丿丞 兀賳賳賷 兀購氐丕丿賮 賰鬲亘賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭丕 賷賯爻賲 毓賯賱賷 賵賯賱亘賷 兀賳 賱賳 賷賳爻丕賴丕 賲丕 丨賷賷鬲
賵賴匕丕 鬲賲丕賲丕賸 賲丕 丨丿孬 賱賷 賲毓 賰鬲丕亘 丕賱噩賱胤丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀賳丕乇鬲 亘氐賷乇鬲賷 丕賱匕賷 賷賲孬賱 鬲噩乇亘丞 卮禺氐賷丞 亘賰丕賲賱 毓賵丕胤賮賴丕 賵兀賮賰丕乇賴丕 賵鬲毓賯賷丿丕鬲賴丕 賱毓丕賱賲丞 賮賷 丕賱賲禺.
丿. 噩賷賱 鬲丕賷賱賵乇
鬲丨賷賰 丕賱兀賯丿丕乇 賱賴丕 賱兀賳 鬲氐丕亘 亘兀丨丿 丕賱兀賷丕賲 亘噩賱胤丞 , 賱鬲鬲丨賵賱 賲賳 毓丕賱賲丞 賮賷 锟斤拷賱賲禺 廿賱賶 兀氐丕亘鬲賴丕 亘噩賱胤丞 賮賷 賮氐 丿賲丕睾賴丕 丕賱兀賷爻賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭乇, 噩毓賱鬲賴丕 鬲賮賯丿 丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱丨乇丕賰 賵丕賱鬲賳丕爻賯 丕賱毓囟賱賷, 賮賯丿 賲乇丕賰夭 丕賱賱睾丞 , 丕賱廿丿乇丕賰
賰丕賳鬲 賰胤賮賱賺 賱丕 賷賮賯賴 卮賷卅丕賸 賰賲丕 賯丕賱鬲 " 賰丕賳 毓賯賱賷 賰胤賮賱丞 , 毓丕卅丿丞 廿賱賶 胤賮賵賱鬲賴丕"
鬲爻乇丿 丿. 噩賷賱 丨賰丕賷鬲賴丕 賲賳匕 賮丕噩毓丞 丕賱噩賱胤丞 , 賵賲丿賶 丕賱乇賵毓丞 賱卮毓賵乇賴丕 賰賲孬丕賱 丨賷 賱賲丕 賯丕賲鬲 亘丿乇丕爻鬲賴 , 賵賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲 鬲丨賱賷賱賴丕 賱賲丕 噩乇賶 , 廿賱賶 胤賱亘賴丕 賱賱賲爻丕毓丿丞 賵丿禺賵賱賴丕 丕賱賲卮賮賶 賵亘丿亍 乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 毓賱賶 兀賲賱 兀賳 鬲乇噩毓 廿賱賶 賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 毓賱賷賴
丕賱噩賱胤丞 賱賲 鬲賰賳 胤丕賲丞 毓賱賶 賯丿乇 賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 賳毓賲丞 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賴丕
賮丕賱噩賱胤丞 兀氐丕亘鬲 賮氐賴丕 丕賱兀賷爻乇 丕賱賲鬲丨賰賲 亘丕賱禺賵賮 , 賵丕賱賯賱賯 , 賵孬乇孬乇丞 丕賱丿賲丕睾 賵兀賷賯馗鬲 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賮氐賴丕 丕賱兀賷賲賳 丕賱賴丿賵亍 賵丕賱爻賱丕賲 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷
賰丕賳鬲 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賰賵賯鬲 賲爻鬲賯胤毓 賱廿毓丕丿丞 鬲乇鬲賷亘 賰賷丕賳賴丕 賵匕丕鬲賴丕
賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賱賲 賷賰賳 賲噩乇丿 賰鬲丕亘 賮賯胤 丕賯乇兀賴 賵兀賳賴賷賴 賵賷爻鬲賲丿 毓賯賱賷 賲賳賴 亘丕賱賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 丕賱乇丕卅毓丞 丕賱鬲賷 丨丕賵賱鬲 丿 .噩賷賱 鬲賯丿賷賲賴丕 賱賱賯丕乇卅 亘爻賱丕爻丞 賵亘亘爻丕胤丞 賵丿賵賳 兀賷 鬲毓賯賷丿
亘賱 賰丕賳 賰乇爻丕賱丞 兀賳 丕毓胤賷 賱毓賯賱賰 賵賳賮爻賰 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱賰丕賮賷 賵兀賵賯賮 "孬乇孬乇丞 丕賱賲禺 " 賰賲丕 賯丕賱鬲 " 丕賴鬲賲賵丕 亘丨丿丕卅賯 毓賯賵賱賰賲"
兀丨亘 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賯氐氐 兀丨亘亘鬲購 廿氐乇丕乇賴丕 賮賷 兀賳 鬲毓賵丿 賰賲丕 賰丕賳鬲
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賲賵丿丞 丌賱亘賭賭賭賭賭賭賭乇睾孬賷^^鉂�
賵賴匕丕 鬲賲丕賲丕賸 賲丕 丨丿孬 賱賷 賲毓 賰鬲丕亘 丕賱噩賱胤丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀賳丕乇鬲 亘氐賷乇鬲賷 丕賱匕賷 賷賲孬賱 鬲噩乇亘丞 卮禺氐賷丞 亘賰丕賲賱 毓賵丕胤賮賴丕 賵兀賮賰丕乇賴丕 賵鬲毓賯賷丿丕鬲賴丕 賱毓丕賱賲丞 賮賷 丕賱賲禺.
丿. 噩賷賱 鬲丕賷賱賵乇
鬲丨賷賰 丕賱兀賯丿丕乇 賱賴丕 賱兀賳 鬲氐丕亘 亘兀丨丿 丕賱兀賷丕賲 亘噩賱胤丞 , 賱鬲鬲丨賵賱 賲賳 毓丕賱賲丞 賮賷 锟斤拷賱賲禺 廿賱賶 兀氐丕亘鬲賴丕 亘噩賱胤丞 賮賷 賮氐 丿賲丕睾賴丕 丕賱兀賷爻賭賭賭賭賭賭賭賭乇, 噩毓賱鬲賴丕 鬲賮賯丿 丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱丨乇丕賰 賵丕賱鬲賳丕爻賯 丕賱毓囟賱賷, 賮賯丿 賲乇丕賰夭 丕賱賱睾丞 , 丕賱廿丿乇丕賰
賰丕賳鬲 賰胤賮賱賺 賱丕 賷賮賯賴 卮賷卅丕賸 賰賲丕 賯丕賱鬲 " 賰丕賳 毓賯賱賷 賰胤賮賱丞 , 毓丕卅丿丞 廿賱賶 胤賮賵賱鬲賴丕"
鬲爻乇丿 丿. 噩賷賱 丨賰丕賷鬲賴丕 賲賳匕 賮丕噩毓丞 丕賱噩賱胤丞 , 賵賲丿賶 丕賱乇賵毓丞 賱卮毓賵乇賴丕 賰賲孬丕賱 丨賷 賱賲丕 賯丕賲鬲 亘丿乇丕爻鬲賴 , 賵賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲 鬲丨賱賷賱賴丕 賱賲丕 噩乇賶 , 廿賱賶 胤賱亘賴丕 賱賱賲爻丕毓丿丞 賵丿禺賵賱賴丕 丕賱賲卮賮賶 賵亘丿亍 乇丨賱丞 丕賱毓賱丕噩 毓賱賶 兀賲賱 兀賳 鬲乇噩毓 廿賱賶 賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 毓賱賷賴
丕賱噩賱胤丞 賱賲 鬲賰賳 胤丕賲丞 毓賱賶 賯丿乇 賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 賳毓賲丞 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賴丕
賮丕賱噩賱胤丞 兀氐丕亘鬲 賮氐賴丕 丕賱兀賷爻乇 丕賱賲鬲丨賰賲 亘丕賱禺賵賮 , 賵丕賱賯賱賯 , 賵孬乇孬乇丞 丕賱丿賲丕睾 賵兀賷賯馗鬲 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賮氐賴丕 丕賱兀賷賲賳 丕賱賴丿賵亍 賵丕賱爻賱丕賲 丕賱丿丕禺賱賷
賰丕賳鬲 丕賱噩賱胤丞 賰賵賯鬲 賲爻鬲賯胤毓 賱廿毓丕丿丞 鬲乇鬲賷亘 賰賷丕賳賴丕 賵匕丕鬲賴丕
賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賱賲 賷賰賳 賲噩乇丿 賰鬲丕亘 賮賯胤 丕賯乇兀賴 賵兀賳賴賷賴 賵賷爻鬲賲丿 毓賯賱賷 賲賳賴 亘丕賱賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲 丕賱乇丕卅毓丞 丕賱鬲賷 丨丕賵賱鬲 丿 .噩賷賱 鬲賯丿賷賲賴丕 賱賱賯丕乇卅 亘爻賱丕爻丞 賵亘亘爻丕胤丞 賵丿賵賳 兀賷 鬲毓賯賷丿
亘賱 賰丕賳 賰乇爻丕賱丞 兀賳 丕毓胤賷 賱毓賯賱賰 賵賳賮爻賰 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱賰丕賮賷 賵兀賵賯賮 "孬乇孬乇丞 丕賱賲禺 " 賰賲丕 賯丕賱鬲 " 丕賴鬲賲賵丕 亘丨丿丕卅賯 毓賯賵賱賰賲"
兀丨亘 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賯氐氐 兀丨亘亘鬲購 廿氐乇丕乇賴丕 賮賷 兀賳 鬲毓賵丿 賰賲丕 賰丕賳鬲
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賲賵丿丞 丌賱亘賭賭賭賭賭賭賭乇睾孬賷^^鉂�
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 12, 2022
賷丕 賱毓馗賲丞 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賯賱!
賴匕賴 丕賱賲乇賾丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 丕賱鬲賷 兀賯乇兀 賮賷賴丕 賱卮禺氐 賲鬲禺氐氐 賮賷 丕丨丿 賲噩丕賱丕鬲 丕賱毓賱賵賲 丕賱亘丨鬲丞貙 賵賷賰鬲亘 亘賰賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丨丕賳賷丞!
丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 亘丿賷毓丞 噩丿賸丕.
賴匕賴 丕賱賲乇賾丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 丕賱鬲賷 兀賯乇兀 賮賷賴丕 賱卮禺氐 賲鬲禺氐氐 賮賷 丕丨丿 賲噩丕賱丕鬲 丕賱毓賱賵賲 丕賱亘丨鬲丞貙 賵賷賰鬲亘 亘賰賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丨丕賳賷丞!
丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 亘丿賷毓丞 噩丿賸丕.
April 3, 2021
賵丕丨賳丕 氐睾賷乇賷賳 賮賷 丕賱賲丿乇爻丞 賰賳丕 亘賳丕禺丿 丕賳 賰賱 禺賱丕賷丕 丕賱噩爻賲 亘鬲噩丿丿 賳賮爻賴丕貙 賱賵 賲丕鬲鬲貙 丕賱噩爻賲 亘賷氐賳毓 睾賷乇賴丕貙 賵丿賷 丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱卮賮丕亍 丕賱賷 賲賵噩賵丿丞 賮賷 噩爻賲賳丕.
賲丕 毓丿丕 丕賱禺賱丕賷丕 丕賱毓氐亘賷丞貙 賲毓賳丿賴丕卮 丕賱賯丿乇丞 毓賱賶 丕賱丕賳賯爻丕賲 賵賱丕 丕賱鬲噩丿賷丿貙 賱賵 賲丕鬲鬲貙 亘鬲亘賯賶 丿賷 丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 賱賵馗賷賮鬲賴丕貙 丿丕 爻亘亘 丕賳賳丕 亘賳賮囟賱 賲丨鬲賮馗賷賳 亘匕賰乇賷丕鬲賳丕 賵禺亘乇丕鬲賳丕 賵胤賮賵賱鬲賳丕 賵賳囟賵噩賳丕 丕賱毓賯賱賷 亘賲乇賵乇 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賳賲丕 賲卮 亘鬲賲賵鬲貙 賱賵 丨氐賱 賱賯丿乇 丕賱賱賴貙 兀賷 賲卮賰賱丞 禺丕乇噩賷丞 丕賵 丿丕禺賱賷丞 丕丿鬲 賱賲賵鬲 丕賱禺賱賷丞 丕賱毓氐亘賷丞 夭賷 亘毓囟 丕賳賵丕毓 丕賱卮賱賱 丕賵 丕賱丕賲乇丕囟 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞 丕賱賷 亘賷賮賯丿 賮賷賴丕 丕賱賲乇賷囟 禺賱丕賷丕賴貙 賲亘賷亘賯丕卮 賮賷 胤乇賷賯丞 鬲丕賳賷丞 賱丕爻鬲毓丕丿鬲賴丕 .... 賵賱賰賳
賮賷 胤乇賷賯丞 賱賱賲禺 丕賳賴 賷毓賵囟 丕賱囟乇乇 丕賱賷 丨氐賱貙 賲氐胤賱丨 賲賳 賱丨馗丞 賲丕 爻賲毓鬲賴 丕賵賱 賲乇丞 賲賳 4 爻賳賷賳貙 賲丕夭丕賱 亘賷亘賴乇賳賷:
賲乇賵賳丞 丕賱賲禺/ Neuroplasticity / brain plasticity
丕賳 賱賵 賮賷 噩夭亍 賲丕鬲 賮賷 丕賱賲禺貙 賴賷毓賵囟賴 賲賰丕賳 鬲丕賳賷 賮賷 丕賱賲禺貙 卮亘賴 賮賯丿丕賳 丨丕爻丞 丕賱亘氐乇 亘鬲鬲毓賵囟 亘丨丕爻丞 丕賱賱賲爻 亘鬲亘賯賶 丨丕丿丞 毓賳 兀賷 卮禺氐 丌禺乇.
噩賷賱 賵氐賮鬲賴 亘胤乇賷賯丞 丨賱賵丞 丕賵賷貙 賱賵 毓賳丿賰賲 賲噩賲賵毓丕鬲 賲賳 丕賱丕胤賮丕賱 亘賷賱毓亘賵丕 丕賱毓丕亘 賲鬲賳賵毓丞 賵賲禺鬲賱賮丞貙 賵噩賷鬲 毓賳丿 賲噩賲賵毓丞 丕禺丿鬲 丕賱賱毓亘丞 賲賳賴賲貙 賮賴賲丕 賲卮 賴賷爻賷亘賵丕 丕賱賱毓亘 禺丕賱氐 賵賷賲卮賵丕貙 賱丕貙 賴賷乇賵丨賵丕 賷賱毓亘賵丕 賮賷 丕賱兀賱毓丕亘 丕賱鬲丕賳賷丞 丕賱賲鬲丕丨丞
丕賱賰鬲丕亘 毓賳 丿.噩賷賱 鬲丕賷賱賵乇 丿賰鬲賵乇丞 賲禺 賵兀毓氐丕亘 丕鬲毓乇囟鬲 賱噩賱胤丞听 丕丿鬲 賱囟乇乇 賰亘賷乇 丕賮賯丿賴丕 丕賱賮氐 丕賱兀賷爻乇 賱賱賲禺貙 丕賱賲爻卅賵賱 毓賳 賵馗丕卅賮 賲賴賲丞 賵賰孬賷乇丞 賮賷 丕賱噩爻賲貙 賴鬲毓賷卮 乇丨賱丞 毓賲乇賴丕 8 爻賳賷賳貙 鬲爻鬲毓賷丿 賮賷賴丕 賯丿乇丕鬲 亘賳賰賵賳 賮丕賰乇賷賳 丕賳賳丕 丕鬲賵賱丿賳丕 亘賷賴丕貙 亘爻 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賳賳丕 亘賳賰鬲爻亘賴丕 賵亘賳鬲毓賱賲賴丕 賵丕丨賳丕 丕胤賮丕賱.
乇丨賱丞 毓馗賷賲丞 亘鬲馗賴乇賱賰 賯丿 丕賷賴 賰賱 丨丕噩丞 氐睾賷乇丞 噩丿丕 噩丿丕 亘賳毓賲賱賴丕 亘亘爻丕胤丞貙 賰丕賳 賱賷賴丕 胤乇賷賯 氐毓亘 噩丿丕 賵丿賯賷賯 亘卮賰賱 賲亘賴乇 賱丕賰鬲爻丕亘賴丕貙 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賱賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱賲乇亘賰丞 賱賱兀毓氐丕亘 亘鬲卮賯 胤乇賷賯賴丕 賱賱丨賷丕丞.
賵亘乇丿賴 賰丕賳 賮賷 兀噩夭丕亍 賰孬賷乇丞 賮賷賴丕 丕爻賴丕亘 賲賲賱 賵賮賷 鬲賰乇丕乇丕鬲 賰孬賷乇丞 氐乇丕丨丞 賰賳鬲 亘毓丿賷 亘爻乇毓丞 毓賱賷賴賲.
毓噩亘賳賷 丕賵賷 賮賰乇丞 賯丿乇鬲賳丕 毓賱賶 丕禺鬲賷丕乇 丕賱賵毓賷 賵乇丐賷鬲賳丕 賵丕丨爻丕爻賳丕貙 丕賳賰 鬲賰賵賳 賯丕毓丿 賲鬲囟丕賷賯 賵賲乇丞 賵丕丨丿丞 鬲賯賵賱 賱丕 丕賳丕 賴賳亘爻胤 賮 鬲賳亘爻胤貙 亘丕賱爻賴賵賱丞 丿賷貙 賵賲毓 丕賱鬲賰乇丕乇 賴鬲鬲毓賵丿 毓賱賶 丕賱丕賳亘爻丕胤 賵賴鬲賰賵賳 卮禺氐 賮乇賮賵卮貙 爻毓丕丿鬲賰 賵丕賳亘爻丕胤賰 賴賷賵氐賱賰 賱丿乇噩丞 爻賴賱丞 噩丿丕 夭賷 賯丿乇鬲賰 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲賵丕夭賳 賵丕賳鬲 賵丕賯賮貙 亘爻 賲毓乇賮卮 賱賷賴 丕睾賱亘 丕賱賳丕爻 賲卮 亘賷賮賰乇賵丕 亘丕賱胤乇賷賯丞 丿賷貙 丕賵 丕賷賴 爻亘亘 丕禺鬲賱丕賮 丕孬賳賷賳 毓丕卮賵丕 賳賮爻 丕賱馗乇賵賮 賵丕賱丨賷丕丞貙 賵丕丨丿 賯乇乇 賷亘賯賶 賲鬲賮丕卅賱 毓賱賶 胤賵賱 賵 賵丕丨丿 賲鬲卮丕卅賲 毓賱賶 胤賵賱 責!
賮賷 丕賱賲噩賲賱 賮賴賵 賰鬲丕亘 賱胤賷賮 丕賵賷貙 爻賴賱 噩丿丕 賵爻賱爻 賲賵噩賴 賱賰賱 丕賱賳丕爻 賵賱賷爻 丕賱丿賰丕鬲乇丞 賮賯胤貙 賵賷爻鬲丨賯 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞.
August 22, 2013
When this fascinating book, My Stroke of Insight, came into my life...my husband picked it up at the library...I thought, Nice title! and that was that. I wasn't up for a book about a person having a stroke. Even when I heard that the author, Jill Bolte Taylor, is a brain scientist, I didn't appreciate how riveting and instructive her narrative could be. Fortunately, after a barrage of raves from my husband, I finally started to read it. Taylor was 36, and alone at home, when she had her stroke. It took her about the same number of minutes (35) to piece together the images in her right brain (her left was hemorrhaging) in order to call her colleague at Harvard. She wasn't able to talk, but he recognized her sounds. It took her eight years to make a full recovery. Not only did she return to teaching, she wrote this book--an intimate account of her brain, during the stroke and during her recovery, AND the by-far best description of right and left brain activity. I am going to recommend this book to all my friends interested in recovery issues (Taylor has a lot of good advice), all the moms in my life (Taylor lays out in detail the left brain/right brain phenomenon), and all the caregivers I know (Taylor has a lot to say about caregiving too).
July 16, 2018
This book is an amazing story of a neuro-scientist who experiences her own stroke. She not only recognizes obvious symptoms like loss of speech and one-sided paralysis, but she can envision what is happening on the cell level in her brain.
Fortunately, with the extreme patience and love of her mother, she eventually regains enough function to live on her own and resume work. Some parts of her job are too stressing and now too difficult, so she works out a different job description with her boss. Part of her job before involved travel and speaking. She moved into that role full time. I watched some videos of the author online, and she is clearly highly intelligent and very articulate. She considerd herself fully recovered at eight years post-stroke.
Taylor's "stroke of insight" (a phrase used over and over in the book) mainly refers to her decision not to allow any negative thoughts, ego, or stress that normally generates from the left brain (the side assaulted by the stroke) to enter her life post-stroke. She makes a conscious effort to verbally thank the cells, organs and systems in her body for doing a good job. She also relates a lot of her understanding of how the right brain works to negative or positive energy that she is now able to intuit to guide her life.
Fortunately, with the extreme patience and love of her mother, she eventually regains enough function to live on her own and resume work. Some parts of her job are too stressing and now too difficult, so she works out a different job description with her boss. Part of her job before involved travel and speaking. She moved into that role full time. I watched some videos of the author online, and she is clearly highly intelligent and very articulate. She considerd herself fully recovered at eight years post-stroke.
Taylor's "stroke of insight" (a phrase used over and over in the book) mainly refers to her decision not to allow any negative thoughts, ego, or stress that normally generates from the left brain (the side assaulted by the stroke) to enter her life post-stroke. She makes a conscious effort to verbally thank the cells, organs and systems in her body for doing a good job. She also relates a lot of her understanding of how the right brain works to negative or positive energy that she is now able to intuit to guide her life.
December 15, 2011
From the anatomically correct stained glass brain on the front (which the author made, a second version displayed at Harvard) to the back cover praise, this is an intriguing, educational, dually mindful book about the 50 trillion cells that make a human being go. Dr. Bolte Taylor's journey back into both sides of her brain, after the left hemisphere of her brain took an unauthorized 8 year sabbatical is a story that needs to be required reading for staff at nursing homes, assisted living centers, hospitals and in homes with anyone living with a mental/cognitive impairment. Her Recommendations for Recovery in the back ought to be posted in all healthcare facilities. This memoir is a personal and scientific account of how our brains function, how we can help improve that function just by being aware of the neurocircuitry and physiological effects of how we think. Did you know the left brain is the storyteller? Given not enough information, the left hemisphere will make stuff up and make us believe it's true. And we can instruct it what to pay attention to. She calls it tending our garden. Dr. Taylor offers the reader the power to create the human being the reader wants to be. Awesome, heady territory. I appreciate her sharing this gift to humankind, and me personally.
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