Distinguished Speakers in UN conference
By healingfamily on Jul. 1, 2008.
At the UN conference of Brain Education (6/20/2008), the distinguished speakers had lecture
They are:
Antonio Damasio, M.D., Ph.D, Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, author of Descartes’ Error (Neuroscience, Education and Culture)
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D., author of My Stroke of Insight, recognized by Time Magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential persons (How to Use the Brain Well)
Ilchi Lee, President, University of Brain Education and IBREA (Brain Education – Our Hope for the Earth)
Eran Katz, Regional Coordinator for IBREA Israel and author of Secrets of a Super Memory (Unlimited Potential of the Brain)
Jessie Jones, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Center for Successful Aging, California State University, Fullerton (Brain Education for Successful Aging)
Dong-geun Seul, Commissioner of Education, Busan, South Korea (Character Education and Brain Education)
Warrington Parker, Jr., Ph.D., Vice President, IBREA USA (Brain Education in U.S. Schools)
Helene-Marie Gosselin, Director, UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, New York Office (Education for a Culture of Peace)
Hanifa Mezoui, Ph.D., Chief, NGO Section, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN (UN Millennium Development Goals).
Everybody’s lecture was so impressed, and gave us lots of hope for our future.
First I want to introduce the topic of Dr. Jill Taylor’s lecture.
How to Get Your Brain to Do What You Want It to Do
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
Author, My Stroke of Insight
On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven year old Harvard-trained neuroscientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four brief hours. As the damaged left side of her brain – the rational, grounded, detail- and time-oriented side – swung in and out of function, she alternated between two distinct and opposite realities: the euphoric nirvana of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized that she had had a stroke and enabled her to seek help. In this talk, Dr. Taylor will share her perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery; the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this unusual and inspiring voyage out of the abyss of a wounded brain; and the recalibration of her understanding of the world according to the insights gained from the right brain.
Category: Brain Education