Jill Bolte Taylor

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Jill Bolte Taylor at the TED conference 2008, holding a (real) brain

Jill Bolte Taylor (born May 4, 1959 ) is a neuroscientist and a well-known speaker and author in the field of neuroanatomy . She became known worldwide in 2008 through a TED talk speech, the recording of which became a viral video on the Internet.

Life

Jill Taylor has a brother diagnosed with schizophrenia, which led her to do research in this direction. She graduated in 1982 for BA at the Indiana University with a double major in biology and physiological psychology. She taught and research scientist at the Terre Haute Center for Medical Education ( Terre Haute Center for Medical Education ) in Indiana. She got to know neuroanatomy at the chair of William J. Anderson at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis . The Ph.D. acquired it in 1991 at the Indiana State University in the Department of Life Sciences ( Department of Life Science ).

She then moved to Boston, where she was able to devote herself to brain research and the study of mental illnesses through a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Neuroscience . In order to raise funds and to persuade schizophrenics to (postmortem) donate their brains, she began to give more speeches. B. 1994 Mental Illness is Physical Disease! (Mental illness is physical illness) or 1995 Morphologic Views of Brain Illness with Emphasis on Schizophrenia! (Morphological views of mental illnesses with an emphasis on schizophrenia). She appeared at various conferences of the NAMI, "National Alliance on Mental Illness" (Student Council for Mental Illness ) and was in their leadership from 1994 to 1997.

She suffered a stroke in the left cerebral cortex on the morning of December 10, 1996, and had brain surgery on December 27, 1996 to remove a blood clot the size of a golf ball. During this time she lost essential intellectual abilities, an experience that greatly inspired her subsequent research and speaking activities. Although it took her eight years to fully recover, she appeared again as a speaker in April 1997. From 2003 she resumed teaching at Indiana University , first in the Department of Kinesiology and then on neurosciences in the Medical Department ( Indiana University School of Medicine ).

In 2006, the first edition was published her book My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey (German At a stroke) they processed in the stroke and the connection to their research activities, which also won a spiritual component to them. After her talk at the TED conference in February 2008 was on the Internet, a second issue was published in May 2008, which was in the bestseller lists for weeks.

The book My Stroke of Insight (German with one stroke. How a brain researcher discovered new dimensions of consciousness through her stroke ) has been translated into 30 languages. Based on the success, she founded the company " My Stroke of Insight " through which she can sponsor further research. Critics point out that the experiences of the stroke appear exaggerated, that some of the presentations in the lectures are scientifically unsustainable and that the connection to esotericism is rejected in the scientific community. The tips for relaxation given in the book are again well-known, as one critic complains.

Web links

Wikiquote: Jill Bolte Taylor  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D (autograph biography) . Jill Bolte Taylor. March 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
  2. ^ Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey . Viking , 2008, ISBN 978-0-670-02074-4 .
  3. ↑ a b Esotericism: With one blow into nirvana . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 2008 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Ted.com
  5. ^ Leslie Kaufman: A Superhighway to Bliss . In: The New York Times , May 25, 2008. Retrieved May 24, 2008. 
  6. ↑ in German 2010 by Knaur under the title With one stroke ISBN 978-3-426-87397-7
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Jill Bolte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American neuroscientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1959