Jill Bolte Taylor

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Jill Bolte Taylor
Jill Bolte Taylor - observing a stroke from within.jpg
Jill Bolte Taylor
speaking at TED on February 27, 2008
Born 1959
Louisville, Kentucky
Residence Bloomington, Indiana
Alma mater Terre Haute South Vigo High School, B.A. Indiana University, Ph.D. Indiana State University, Postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School (Depts of Psychiatry and Neuroscience)
Known for Work in neuroanatomy

Jill Bolte Taylor (born 1959 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a neuroanatomist - a brain scientist who studies the anatomy of the brain. Her training is in the postmortem investigation of the human brain as it relates to schizophrenia and the severe mental illnesses. She just started the Jill Bolte Taylor Brains, Inc not-for-profit and she is affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine and is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center. Her personal experience with a massive stroke, experienced in 1996 at the age of 37, and her subsequent eight-year recovery, has informed her work as a scientist and speaker. For this work, in May 2008 she was named to Time Magazine's 2008 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1] "My Stroke of Insight" received the top "Books for a Better Life" Book Award in the Science category from the New York City Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society on February 23, 2009 in New York City.[2]

Contents

Stroke of Insight [edit]

On December 10, 1996, Taylor woke up to discover that she was experiencing a stroke. The cause proved to be bleeding from an abnormal congenital connection between an artery and a vein in the left hemisphere of her brain, an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Three weeks later, on December 27, 1996, she underwent major brain surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to remove a golf ball-sized clot that was placing pressure on the language centers in the left hemisphere of her brain.

Taylor's February 2008 TED Conference talk[3] about her memory of the stroke[4] became an Internet sensation, resulting in widespread attention and interest around the world. It became the second most viewed TED talk of all time.[5]

Book [edit]

Following her experience with stroke, Taylor wrote the best-selling book My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey,[6] about her recovery from the stroke and the insights she has gained into the workings of her brain because of it. Subsequently, Taylor appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on October 21, 2008.[7] In her later commencement address at Duke University on May 10, 2009, Oprah Winfrey quoted Taylor's assertion that, "You are responsible for the energy that you bring" in encouraging the students to assume this same responsibility in their future lives.[8] Taylor was the first guest featured on Oprah's Soul Series[9] webcast on Oprah.com and Satellite radio show.

After Taylor's representative, transmedia agent and attorney Ellen Stiefler, conducted an auction for worldwide publishing rights to "My Stroke of Insight," Penguin won the book.[10] and it was published in hardcover in May 2008, debuting near the top of the New York Times Non-fiction Hardcover Bestseller list. "My Stroke of Insight" spent seventeen weeks on the New York Times Bestseller Lists, reaching number 4.[11] My Stroke of Insight also is available in paperback, large print, audio book, and kindle editions.

My Stroke of Insight is available in over 30 languages. [12]

Movie [edit]

My Stroke of Insight is currently available to be developed into a major feature film, directed by Ron Howard.[13][14]

Ballet [edit]

Cedar Lake Ballet Company made a ballet about My Stroke of Insight called "Orbo Novo." "The piece's title, Orbo Novo, is drawn from a 1493 reference to North America by Spanish historian Pietro Martire d'Anghiera. The "new world" that Cherkaoui is exploring, however, is current theories about the brain, and the text that the seventeen dancers speak during the first moments of the 75-minute work comes from My Stroke of Insight, neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's uncanny recollection of her stroke. The choreography is based on the ramifications of a single resonant idea: the duality between rationality (the left brain) and instinctive, sensual responses (the right brain); between control and the lack of it; between balance and instability, solitude and society."[15] "Thus were the dancers speaking Taylor's words (“My spirit soared free like a great whale gliding through the sea of silent euphoria”), while they physically embodied brain waves and misfiring synapses, with a nod, perhaps, to the double helix: rubbery splayed limbs; über-arched backs; ever-rippling torsos."[16] “‘Orbo Novo’ is a humorous and insightful take on (Taylor’s) story,” said dancer Jubal Battisti. “It has a lot to do with the hemispheres of the brain switching between left and right and what that reveals.”[17]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Clark, Dick (2008-05-12). "The 2008 Time 100: Jill Bolte Taylor". Time Magazine 171 (19). Retrieved 2008-05-02 
  2. ^ "Chapter announces Books for a Better Life". Feb 24, 2009. 
  3. ^ Ted.com
  4. ^ "Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight". Technology entertainment design. 2008-02-27. Retrieved 2008-05-24. 
  5. ^ Kaufman, Leslie (2008-05-25). "A Superhighway to Bliss". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-24. 
  6. ^ Taylor, Jill Bolte (2008). My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02074-4. 
  7. ^ "Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor Explains Her Stroke of Genius". Oprah.com. 2008-10-21. Retrieved 2012-10-23. 
  8. ^ Oprah Winfrey, commencement address May 10, 2009 http://news.duke.edu/2009/05/winfrey_address.html
  9. ^ Oprah.com
  10. ^ "Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor Explains Her Stroke of Genius". Oprah.com. 2008-10-21. Retrieved 2012-10-23. 
  11. ^ http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/blogs/categories/bestsellers?page=5/
  12. ^ My Stroke of Insight is available in over 30 languages including Portuguese in Brazil and Portugal, Ediouro Publicacoe S.A.; Editorial Presenca; Bulgaria, Janua '98 LTD; Chinese, Hainan Publishing House; Croatian, Planetopija; Danish Borgen Forlag; Estonian Pilgrim Publishing; Finnish, Otava Publishing; French in France, Editions Jean-Claude Lattes; German in Germany, Droemer; Greek in Greece, Livanis Publishing Organization S.A.; Hungarian in Hungary Agykontroll Kft.; Indonesian in Indonesia, PT Elex Media Komputindo; Hebrew in Israel Modan Publishing House; Italian in Italy, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SPA; Japanese in Japan, Shincho-Sha Co. Ltd; Korean in Korea, Will Books; Mandarin Chinese in Mainland China, Hainan Pub House; Marathi and other Indian dialects and languages in India (Marathi), Mehta Publishing House,;Dutch in the Netherlands, Kosmos Uitgevers BV; Norwegian in Norway, Cappelen Damm A/S; Polish in Poland, Nowa Proza SP. Z O.O.; Romanian in Romania, Curtea Veche; Russian in Russia, Atticus Publishing Group LLC; Slovene in Slovenia, Mladinsk Knjiga; Spanish in Spain, Random House Mondadori; Swedish in Sweden, Bra Bocker; Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese in Taiwan, Commonwealth Publishing Co. LTD.; Thai in Thailand, Saengdao Publishing House Co., LTD.; Turkish in Turkey, Kuraldisi Yayincilik; British English in United Kingdom, Hodder Headline Ltd. and American English in the United States, Penguin Books.
  13. ^ Bolte Taylor, Film development, Stanford Medicine, issue 11
  14. ^ New York Times, March 13, 2013 Movies in development My Stroke of Insight
  15. ^ "Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Tries Getting In Our Heads". 
  16. ^ "Cedar Lake Ballet at UCLA - Review". Los Angeles Times. 
  17. ^ "Not The Typical Ballet Show". 

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