# 2-2 stroke

Jill Bolte Taylor (born 1959) is a neuroanatomist who specializes in the postmortem examination of the human brain. She is member of the Indiana University School of Medicine, is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center, and is the consulting neuroanatomist the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute. Your personal experience with a severe stroke in 1996 at the age of 37 experienced and their subsequent recovery of eight years, has informed her work as aScholars and speakers. For this work, which was in May 2008 she was named to the list of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. "My Stroke of Insight" was awarded the "Books for a Better Life" Book Award in the science of the New York City Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 23 February 2009 in New York City. On 10 December 1996, Taylor woke up to discover that she was experiencing a rare form of stroke, an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) to. Three weekslater, on 27 December 1996, she underwent major brain surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to remove the golf ball-size, the bleeding was placing pressure on the speech in the left hemisphere of her brain. Taylor February 2008 TED conference to talk about their memories of the strike became an Internet sensation, resulting in widespread attention and interest throughout the world and an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Taylor has written a best-selling book, published by Viking2008 ...



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