Barbara K. Lipska

Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind (eBook, ePUB)

My Tale of Madness and Recovery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madnessonly to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettablelessons about the brain and mind. At the height of her career, Barbara Lipskaa leading experton the neuroscience of mental illnesswas diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She exhibited dementia- and schizophrenia-like symptoms that terrified her family and coworkers. But miraculously, the immunotherapy her doctors prescribed worked, and Lipska returned to normal. With one difference: she remembered her brush with madness with exquisite clarity. Lipska draws on her extraordinary experience to explain how mental illness, brain injury, and age can distort 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, evenwhen so much else is gone.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781328787279
• Artikelnr.: 49421373

Autorenporträt

BARBARA K. LIPSKA, Ph.D., is director of the Human Brain Collection Core at the National Institute of Mental Health, where she studies mental illness and human brain development. A native of Poland, she holds a Ph.D. in medical sciences from the Medical School of Warsaw, and is an internationally recognized leader in human postmortem research and animal modeling of schizophrenia. Before emigrating from Poland to the United States, Dr. Lipska was a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw. She has been at NIMH since 1989 and has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals. A marathon runner and a triathlete, she lives with her husband, Mirek Gorski, in Virginia.