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Melanoma -- Patients -- Biography.
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Lipska, Barbara K.
Lipska, Barbara K. -- Health.
Melanoma -- Patients -- Biography.
Brain metastasis -- Patients -- Biography.
Neuroscientists -- United States -- Biography.
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The neuroscientist who lost her mind : my tale of madness and recovery /
Barbara
K
.
Lipska
; with Elaine McArdle.
by
Lipska
,
Barbara
K
.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Call #:
616.994 L767n
Subjects
Lipska
,
Barbara
K
.
--
Health
.
Melanoma
--
Patients
--
Biography.
Brain metastasis
--
Patients
--
Biography.
Neuroscientists
--
United States
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9781328787309 (hc.)
Description:
xix, 188 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188).
Summary:
"In January 2015, neuroscientist
Barbara
Lipska
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. 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. She remembered her brush with madness with exquisite clarity.
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.
Barbara
Lipska
is director of the Human Brain Collection Core at the National Institute of Mental
Health
. A native of Poland, she has 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. She lives in Virginia.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Other authors:
McArdle, Elaine.
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