Photo: #The cover of "Stroke of Insight," by Jill Bolte Taylor.

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Overcoming stroke

Broadcast: Midmorning, 07/03/2008, 10:06 a.m.
Broadcast: Midmorning, 10/20/2008, 10:06 a.m.
Broadcast: Midmorning, 10/20/2008, 10:06 a.m.

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A brain researcher suffers a major stroke on the left side of her brain, and explains how she understood her disease as it happened and then retrained her own brain to use the right side.

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  • Jill Bolte Taylor: Former Harvard brain researcher who spent eight years recovering from a stroke. Her book is called "My Stroke of Insight."

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