WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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Host Mylo Roze interviews the “Singing Scientist” Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, president of the Bloomington chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, an author, brain researcher, and stroke survivor. Hear about Dr. Taylor’s many roles in the Bloomington community and abroad as educator, spokesperson and advocate. Topics include altered perception; neuroanatomy; stroke and the process of recovery; schizophrenia and other forms of mental illness; addiction and the effects of drugs on the brain; policy questions regarding incarceration and institutionalization of those experiencing mental illness and addiction; the training of police officers locally in the CIT program (devised to help officers recognize mental illness and de-escalate conflict); how one can donate their brain tissue to research; and Dr. Taylor’s epiphanies and shift of consciousness during and since her own stroke some ten years ago.
