My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientistʼs Personal Journey (2008) is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning book written by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist.

writes in the New England Journal of Medicine that although the account is gripping and insightful, it is "burdened by an interpretation of stroke through the narrow lens of hemispheric function."

[2] Bert Keizer, a Dutch geriatrician,[3] reviewed the book and described it as "neurosophy", where the author sees brain neurons as the foundation for religious experience.

[6] The paperback edition was released May 26, 2009, by Plume (ISBN 0452295548)[7] My Stroke of Insight is also available in electronic e-book,[8] large print[9] and audio book forms.

[11] "Thus were the dancers speaking Taylor's words (“My spirit soared free like a great whale gliding through the sea of silent euphoria”), while they physically embodied brain waves and misfiring synapses, with a nod, perhaps, to the double helix: rubbery splayed limbs; über-arched backs; ever-rippling torsos."