Jill Bolte Taylor once worked at Harvard Medical School, where she conducted research and taught young professionals about the science of the human brain. But on December 10, 1996, she herself was taught a lesson. On the morning of that day, the left hemisphere of her brain was struck by a rare type of stroke. The book “My Stroke Was My Science: The Story of My Own Illness Told by a Neuroscientist” is a chronology of the descent into the abyss of silence. University knowledge is intertwined in this book with her own life experience and the science that it became for Taylor. This is the first detailed description of the medical history and complete recovery compiled by a neuroanatomist who suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage. Jill Bolte Taylor's book has become an international bestseller, and a film adaptation is currently underway in Hollywood.