Comments on: Jill Bolte Taylor’s Right Brain Wants to Tell Us Something http://calitreview.com/787 An arts and culture magazine. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vanessahttp://calitreview.com/787/comment-page-1#comment-147723 vanessa Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:57:22 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=787#comment-147723 wondering, pedro, how Jill Bolte Taylor's statements are worthless or misleading when they come from direct experience and her own recovery offers more empirical evidence than any peer reviewed publication ever could...remember she was a trained neuroscientist who would have likely not believed any of this had she not been given the unexpected gift of a stroke to experience it firsthand. i am much more apt to trust this lived experience than guesses based on the limited thinking of "experts" trained to reject possibilities that are outside the realm of their personal experience. wondering, pedro, how Jill Bolte Taylor’s statements are worthless or misleading when they come from direct experience and her own recovery offers more empirical evidence than any peer reviewed publication ever could…remember she was a trained neuroscientist who would have likely not believed any of this had she not been given the unexpected gift of a stroke to experience it firsthand. i am much more apt to trust this lived experience than guesses based on the limited thinking of “experts” trained to reject possibilities that are outside the realm of their personal experience.

]]> By: pedrohttp://calitreview.com/787/comment-page-1#comment-24637 pedro Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:48:47 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=787#comment-24637 This "brain scientist" is more carnival barker and less scientist. I've been in stroke rehab research for 10 years, tons of peer review, other publications, including a book... talks, everything. Her statements about what facilitates stroke rehab is worthless. actually, less than worthless; misleading. Check this discussion out: http://westallen.typepad.com/idealawg/2008/04/some-critical-t.html This “brain scientist” is more carnival barker and less scientist. I’ve been in stroke rehab research for 10 years, tons of peer review, other publications, including a book… talks, everything. Her statements about what facilitates stroke rehab is worthless. actually, less than worthless; misleading. Check this discussion out:

http://westallen.typepad.com/idealawg/2008/04/some-critical-t.html

]]> By: Sophiehttp://calitreview.com/787/comment-page-1#comment-22400 Sophie Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:58:24 +0000 http://calitreview.com/?p=787#comment-22400 Beautiful Picture, and wonderful article too. The video is amazing!! I can't wait to read MY STROKE OF INSIGHT. Thank you, Paul, for suggesting this inspiring subject. Sophie G. Petaluma CA Beautiful Picture, and wonderful article too. The video is amazing!! I can’t wait to read MY STROKE OF INSIGHT. Thank you, Paul, for suggesting this inspiring subject. Sophie G. Petaluma CA

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