02678cam a2200373 i 4500 517032808 TxAuBib 20180620120000.0 171102s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017046211 9781328787309 $25.00 1328787303 $25.00 DLC eng DLC rda DLC TxAuBib rda Lipska, Barbara K. The neuroscientist who lost her mind : my tale of madness and recovery / Barbara K. Lipska with Elaine McArdle. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. xix, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. "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 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. 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 intomadness, 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, evenwhen so much else is gone"-- Provided by publisher. 20180620. Lipska, Barbara K Health. Melanoma Patients Biography. Brain metastasis Patients Biography. Neuroscientists Biography. Neurosciences. Mental Health. Biography & Autobiography. McArdle, Elaine, author. Lipska, Barbara K., Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 Neuroscientist who lost her mind. BTCLS