After the Stroke - Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's Metamorphosis

In a Single Stroke: The Metamorphosis of Jill Bolte Taylor

By Katherine Russell Rich
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the October 2002 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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She was a scientist, a workaholic, and an expert in the human mind. Then one morning her own brain turned against her. Katherine Russell Rich reports on the extraordinary metamorphosis Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor experienced after her stroke.

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