A good blog posting here, it basically discounts Jill Bolte Taylors writing in Stroke of Insight. One line from the blog here, you'll have to read the rest at the link.
The left-brain/right-brain dichotomy is pop-psychology pseudoscience. Be suspicious of anyone touting it as a legitimate or insightful way of looking at human human personality or cognition.
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/more-left-brain-right-brain-nonsense/
But ask your neurologist about this kind of stuff.
Hey Dean, this interests me because - and, stroke-addled that I am, I may not have correctly understood this article - one observation I've made about the effect of the stroke (in the right side of my brain) is how I have become more acutely aware of the use of our language - actually, its misuse. In the same way that my right hand and leg are more coordinated and physically adept since the stroke, my language skills are improved. It seems to me that my intact left hemisphere, with the home of my language skills, did/does not share that skill with the right side. Or something else is true.
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