Jill Bolte Taylor (born 1959)

Born 1959 CE.

Jill Bolte Taylor (; born May 4, 1959) is an American neuroanatomist, author, and public speaker. Taylor began to study severe mental illnesses because of her brother's psychosis. In the early 1990s, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she was involved in mapping the brain to determine how cells communicate with each other. On December 10, 1996, Taylor had a massive stroke. Her personal experience with a stroke and her subsequent eight-year recovery influenced her work as a scientist and speaker. It is the subject of her 2008 book My Stroke of Insight, A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey. She gave the first TED talk that went viral on the Internet, after which her book became a New York Times bestseller. In May 2008 she was named to Time Magazine's 2008 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Bolte Taylor (; born May 4, 1959) is an American neuroanatomist, author, and public speaker. Taylor began to study severe mental illnesses because of her brother's psychosis. In the early 1990s, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she was involved in mapping the brain to determine how cells communicate with each other. On December 10, 1996, Taylor had a massive stroke. Her personal experience with a stroke and her subsequent eight-year recovery influenced her work as a scientist and speaker. It is the subject of her 2008 book My Stroke of Insight, A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey. She gave the first TED talk that went viral on the Internet, after which her book became a New York Times bestseller. In May 2008 she was named to Time Magazine's 2008 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Text from the Wikipedia article Jill_Bolte_Taylor (revision 1372647612), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.