My Stroke of Insight is a book by Jill Bolte Taylor who was a neuroanatomist who spent most of her life researching the brain. In 1991, Taylor received her doctorate degree, and held a position at Harvard, Medical School in Department of Neuroscience (Taylor p.2). Being in her mid-thirties, the year 1996, Taylor discovered that she was having a stroke of her own. She describes how blood vessel exploded on the left side of her brain. Taylor was not able to read, write, talk, or recall any aspects of her life (Taylor p. 17). Giving detailed warning if a stroke was to every occur, signs Taylor also talks about the microscopic and anatomy of the brain. The morning of the stroke Taylor body felt jerky and that she was having a major neurological
