A neurologist perspective on her own stroke
March 12th, 2008
The good people at TED are nice enough to be already releasing some this year’s presentations, which happened just a couple of weeks ago. One of the few videos they released so far is this perspective-shifting presentation by Dr. Jill Taylor.
She’s a distinguished neural anatomist, which took the unfortunate event of her having a stroke and turned into a life changing experience, of a huge level of unexpected learning, especially for such an accomplished scientist. Direct link.
The ending is what’s core to the presentation, and needless to be commented on, but I must say I found the beginning, with the clear explanations on the differences between each of the brain hemispheres also quite enlightening. Having the notion of what is going on inside, and the fragility of how the brain accomplishes the very sophisticated processes we take for granted every day, well… it makes you think.