Jill Bolte Taylor | |
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 Bolte Taylor at TED, 2008 | |
| Born | May 4, 1959 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Indiana University Bloomington (B.A.), Indiana State University (Ph.D.) |
| Known for | My Stroke of Insight |
| Website | DrJillTaylor.com |
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 "A blood vessel exploded in the left half of my brain...", Jill Bolte Taylor, TED Talk |
Jill Bolte Taylor (/ˈbɒlti/; born May 4, 1959) is an American neuroanatomist, author, and public speaker.
Taylor began to study severe mental illnesses because of her brother's psychosis. In the early 1990s, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she was involved in mapping the brain to determine how cells communicate with each other. On December 10, 1996, Taylor had a massive stroke. Her personal experience with a stroke and her subsequent eight-year recovery influenced her work as a scientist and speaker. It is the subject of her 2006 book My Stroke of Insight, A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey. She gave the first TED talk that went viral on the Internet,[citation needed] after which her book became a New York Times bestseller.
In May 2008 she was named to Time Magazine's 2008 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1] "My Stroke of Insight" received the top "Books for a Better Life" Book Award in the Science category from the New York City Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in 2009.[2]
Taylor founded the nonprofit Jill Bolte Taylor Brains, Inc., she is an adjunct lecturer in anatomy, cell biology and physiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and she is the national spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center.
- ^ Clark, Dick (2008-05-12). "The 2008 Time 100: Jill Bolte Taylor". Time Magazine. Vol. 171, no. 19. Archived from the original on May 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-02.
- ^ "Chapter announces Books for a Better Life". February 24, 2009. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010.