What It Feels Like To Have a Stroke (And More About Your Brain)

in Science, TED Talks, Video - Science | September 18th, 2008 5 Comments

From the TedTalks con­fer­ence. Fas­ci­nat­ing talk. Here’s a sum­ma­ry that intro­duces the clip below …

“Neu­roanatomist Jill Bolte Tay­lor had an oppor­tu­ni­ty few brain sci­en­tists would wish for: One morn­ing, she real­ized she was hav­ing a mas­sive stroke. As it hap­pened — as she felt her brain func­tions slip away one by one, speech, move­ment, under­stand­ing — she stud­ied and remem­bered every moment. This is a pow­er­ful sto­ry about how our brains define us and con­nect us to the world and to one anoth­er.” Added to our YouTube playlist.


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  • 125 Science Videos: Our Greatest Hits | Open Culture says:
    July 13, 2011 at 6:14 am

    […] It Feels Like To Have a Stroke — Video – Har­vard neu­roanatomist Jill Bolte Tay­lor recounts her expe­ri­ence hav­ing a stroke. One of […]

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  • 125 Science Videos: Our Greatest Hits | CourseKeeper.com says:
    July 13, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    […] It Feels Like To Have a Stroke — Video – Har­vard neu­roanatomist Jill Bolte Tay­lor recounts her expe­ri­ence hav­ing a stroke. One of […]

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  • Gopal says:
    December 29, 2012 at 8:06 am

    I get what you are say­ing about the diez­inzss. I had a sim­i­lar expe­ri­ence dur­ing my first MS episode a few months back. My ver­ti­go per­me­at­ed every expere­ince. It hurt just to stand up. I was afraid to sleep.Now I’ll be annoy­ing Have you been to the doc­tor? Are you tak­ing any­thing to get rid of that feel­ing? I tried all the usu­al ver­ti­go stuff but noth­ing helped. When I got my diag­noses they put me on Pred­nisone and that final­ly reduced the swelling in my head enough for the ver­ti­go to work its way out. I hope you feel bet­ter soon. Con­stant dizi­ness is awful.

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  • Heriberto says:
    December 29, 2012 at 8:06 am

    Hi Amy,I have not read Dr. Tay­lor’s book yet. It should go on my to-do list one of these days. Keep­ing up with our own blogs, rdnieag the blogs of oth­ers, inter­act­ing with oth­ers on our blogs and theirs, while think­ing and writ­ing our own thoughts and projects takes a con­sid­er­able amount of it. The ben­e­fit of Blog­lines I am alert­ed to posts of my favorites when they are up. I could­n’t keep track of things oth­er­wise.

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  • Alan says:
    March 16, 2013 at 4:17 am

    Wel­come to the world of med­i­ta­tion

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