Experience of Having a Stroke

Objectives

Explain the structure and function of neurons and how they communicate with each other In this unit we will study the nature of the brain, the parts that make it up and how they function

Media

Video of a stroke experience Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight

Activity

What would it be like to have a stroke? Watch Jill Bolte Taylor's video of a brain scientist who experienced for herself what brain injury can mean Pay special attention in this video to the stroke patient’s description of the differences in function of the two hemispheres of the brain. That will be one focus of this unit.