Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

I loved my life.

I loved what I was doing.

And, you know, I had the same thinking pattern of really focused on at a cellular level, what are the differences between me and my brain and my brother's brain?

I was climbing the Harvard ladder.

And I had my PhD in neuroanatomy.

And I did my first postdoc was at, so I went from Indiana.

I grew up in Indiana.

And then once I got my PhD, I went to Harvard Medical School for my postdoc.

I was studying in the lab of David Hubel, a Nobel laureate.

So, you know, it was very alpha personality, go, go, go, let's achieve.

And then from David Hubel's labs, I moved from the Department of Neurobiology to the Harvard Department of Psychiatry because I wanted to focus my basic science research on the schizophrenia and what is the difference at a neuroanatomical level.

So, you know, I was climbing the Harvard ladder doing what a girl had to do, and I was an artist in my heart.

Hmm.

And I chose neuroscience to make a living.

And so when I went to the labs, I said to all of my mentors, I am an artist in my heart, so give me projects that you care about an aesthetic component

to the science, and that meant the visualization of cells, neurotransmitters, relationships between these, and let me make for you beautiful art and learn new things in the lab at the same time.

Yeah, so first of all, I'm a PhD.

I am a scientist.

Of course, I have had neuro.

I have learned some neurology.