A stroke of luck

Soon after waking one morning in 1996, neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor began having a massive stroke. Few of her colleagues would ever hope to have a chance like hers -- to study a brain hemorrhage from the inside out. But there she was, watching her speech, motor skills and understanding slip away. This remarkable scientist, who lived to tell the tale in her 2006 book A Stroke of Insight, made Time's 100 most influential people list this year.

In this video she describes her experience and what it revealed to her about how the brain functions and what it can teach us about being human.



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