The neuroscientist who lost her mind : a memoir of madness and recovery
Lipska, Barbara K.2018
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All we think, feel and dream, how we move, if we move, everything that makes us who we are, comes from the brain. We are the brain. So what happens when the brain fails? What happens when we lose our mind? In January 2015 renowned neuroscientist Barbara Lipska's melanoma spread to her brain. It was, in effect, a death sentence. She had surgery, radiation treatments and entered an immunotherapy clinical trial. And then her brain started to play tricks on her. The expert on mental illness - who had spent a career trying to work out how the brain operates and what happens when it fails - experienced what it is like to go mad. She began to exhibit paranoia and schizophrenia-like symptoms. She became disinhibited, completely unaware of her inappropriate behaviour. Weaving the science of the mind and the biology of the brain into her deeply personal story, this is the dramatic account of Dr Lipska's own brilliant brain gone awry.
Main title:
The neuroscientist who lost her mind : a memoir of madness and recovery / Barbara K. Lipska with Elaine McArdle.
Author:
Lipska, Barbara K., authorMcArdle, Elaine, author
Imprint:
London : Bantam Press, 2018.
Collation:
xix, 188 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780593078921 (hbk)
Dewey class:
616.890092
LC class:
RC464
Local class:
616.890092616.89
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2200148