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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