Analyzing the science of the mind and the biology of the brain alongisde Dr Lipska's own extraordinary story of madness, this is a powerful account of what happens when the brain fails.
Dr Barbara K. Lipska is Director of the Human Brain Collection Core
at America's National Institute of Mental Health. She is an
internationally recognized leader in human postmortem research and
animal modeling of schizophrenia. Her primary research interests
are in mental illness and human brain development. She conducts
gene expression and epigenetic studies in postmortem human brains
to investigate mechanisms of brain maturation, the effects of
genetic variation on transcription and DNA methylation, and
molecular mechanisms underlying schizophrenia and other serious
mental illnesses.
Her job involves the supervision of the collection of more than one
thousand human brains, and she coordinates the donation process and
distribution of well-characterized brain specimens. Information
from these specimens is vital in improving our understanding of the
causes of neuropsychiatric disorders and developing new treatments
for these disorders.
A marathon runner and a triathlete, she is a mother of two
children, both doctors. She lives in Virginia with her husband
Mirek Gorski.
Fascinating and irresistibly page-turning, The Neuroscientist Who
Lost Her Mind is an Oliver Sacks-meets-When Breath Becomes Air
account of insanity caused by over a dozen brain tumors. Barbara
Lipska's remarkable story illuminates the many mysteries of our
fragile yet resilient brains and through her harrowing journey of
recovery, she shows us that nothing is impossible.
*Lisa Genova, bestselling author of Still Alice and Every Note
Played*
In this fascinating book, a neuroscientist describes the terrifying
symptoms she suffered as a result of multiple brain tumours. We
learn about how the brain can produce bizarre and bewildering
symptoms from the point of view of someone who has personal
experience of aspects of the mental illness that she spends her
life studying... Completely compelling and powerful, and hard to
put down.
*Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret
Life of the Teenage Brain*
A spellbinding investigation into the mysteries of the human brain,
led by a scientist whose tenacity is as remarkable as her
story.
*Amanda Ripley, New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest
Kids in the World and The Unthinkable*
A superb memoir from a highly respected neuroscientist ... [a]
remarkable account of sanity lost and regained.
*Dr Frank Vertosick, author of When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales
from Neurosurgery*
A riveting science story about how brains go bad, interwoven with
the remarkable personal story of one brain going spectacularly bad.
A total nail-biter.
*Lisa Sanders, New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient
Tells a Story*
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