The neuroscientist who lost her mind : my tale of madness and recovery

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The neuroscientist who lost her mind : my tale of madness and recovery

Title remainder

my tale of madness and recovery

Statement of responsibility

Barbara K. Lipska ; with Elaine McArdle

Creator

• trueLipska, Barbara K.
• Lipska, Barbara K.,

Contributor

• McArdle, Elaine,

Author

• McArdle, Elaine,
• Lipska, Barbara K.,

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
• Brain Neoplasms
• trueBrain metastasis
• Brain metastasis -- Patients -- Biography
• trueCancer
• trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Medical issues
• trueLipska, Barbara K
• Lipska, Barbara K -- Health
• Medical Laboratory Personnel
• Melanoma
• Melanoma -- Patients -- Biography
• trueMental illness
• trueNeuroscientists
• Neuroscientists -- Biography
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health
• truePeople with melanoma
• SCIENCE -- Life Sciences | Neuroscience
• trueScience writing -- Medicine | Illness and disease
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• Autobiographies

Genre

• trueLife stories
• trueScience writing
• trueBiography
• Autobiographies
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs

Language

eng

Summary

• "As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness--only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. 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 [this memoir], 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, 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 began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia- and schizophrenia-like symptoms. But miraculously the prescribed immunotherapy began to work. Here Lipska describes her ordeal and its lessons about the mind and brain

Storyline

• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueSobering

Writing style

• trueCandid

Assigning source

Dust jacket

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 616.99/4770092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

RC280.M37

LC item number

L57 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

WL 358

Target audience

adult