The Man Who Forgot How to Read
by Howard Engel | 
A Leg to Stand On
by Oliver Sacks | 
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
by Katrina Firlik |
Unthinkable
by Helen Thomson | 
Brain on Fire
by Susannah Cahalan |
When the Air Hits Your Brain
by Frank Vertosick Jr. | 
The Psychopath Inside
by James Fallon | 
The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain
by Barbara Strauch | 
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
by Sam Kean | 
On Edge
by Andrea Petersen | 
Complications
by Atul Gawande | 
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
by Gabor Mate | 
Thinking in Pictures
by Temple Grandin |
Cracked
by James Davies | 
First Person Plural
by Cameron West | 
The Disordered Mind
by Eric R. Kandel |
Switched On
by John Elder Robison | 
The Hacking of the American Mind
by Robert H. Lustig | 
Saving Normal
by Allen Frances |
Migraine
by Oliver Sacks |
Jill Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious scientist, she watched her mind deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Because of her understanding of the brain, her respect for the cells in her body, and an amazing mother, Jill completely recovered. In My Stroke of Insight, she shares her recommendations for recovery and the insight she gained into the unique functions of the two halves of her brain. When she lost the skills of her left brain, her consciousness shifted away from normal reality where she felt "at one with the universe." Taylor helps others not only rebuild their brains from trauma, but helps those of us with normal brains better understand how we can consciously influence the neural circuitry underlying what we think, how we feel and how we react to life's circumstances.