Top Highlights

• Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think.
• This rare form of hemorrhage rendered me completely disabled whereby I could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any aspects of my life.
• when someone contrasts what he or she feels intuitively about something (often expressed as a “gut feeling”) to what they think about it, this insightful awareness is a higher cognition that is grounded in the right hemisphere of the cerebral cortex.
• Because every brain is unique in its neurological wiring, every brain is unique in its ability to recover from trauma.
• As a result, the world of science supports the idea that the relationship between the two cerebral hemispheres is more appropriately viewed as two complementary halves of a whole rather than as two individual entities or identities.