The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale Of Madness And Recovery
by Barbara K. Lipska /
2018 / English / PDF
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In January 2015, Barbara Lipska-a leading expert on the
neuroscience of mental illness-was diagnosed with melanoma that had
spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of
cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness,
exhibiting dementia-and schizophrenia-like symptoms that terrified
her family and coworkers. But miraculously, just as her doctors
figured out what was happening, the immunotherapy they had
prescribed began to work. Just eight weeks after her nightmare
began, Lipska returned to normal. With one difference: she
remembered her brush with madness with exquisite clarity. In The
Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, Lipska describes her
extraordinary ordeal and its lessons about the mind and brain. She
explains how mental illness, brain injury, and age can change our
behavior, personality, cognition, and memory. She tells what it is
like to experience these changes firsthand. And she reveals what
parts of us remain, even when so much else is gone.
In January 2015, Barbara Lipska-a leading expert on the
neuroscience of mental illness-was diagnosed with melanoma that had
spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of
cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness,
exhibiting dementia-and schizophrenia-like symptoms that terrified
her family and coworkers. But miraculously, just as her doctors
figured out what was happening, the immunotherapy they had
prescribed began to work. Just eight weeks after her nightmare
began, Lipska returned to normal. With one difference: she
remembered her brush with madness with exquisite clarity. In The
Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, Lipska describes her
extraordinary ordeal and its lessons about the mind and brain. She
explains how mental illness, brain injury, and age can change our
behavior, personality, cognition, and memory. She tells what it is
like to experience these changes firsthand. And she reveals what
parts of us remain, even when so much else is gone.