My stroke of insight | Jill Bolte Taylor | TED - YouTube
I embarked on a journey to understand the brain due to my brother's diagnosis with schizophrenia, which led me to question the connection between dreams and reality. I dedicated my career to researching severe mental illnesses, moving to Boston to work in Dr. Francine Benes's lab at the Harvard Department of Psychiatry. We explored the biological differences between the brains of 'normal' individuals and those diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective, or bipolar disorder, focusing on the microcircuitry of the brain.