The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery - Softcover

"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)

'Completely compelling and powerful, and hard to put down.' Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, prize-winning author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

- Who are we if our brain fails?
- How do we think?
- How do we feel?
- How do we move, if we move at all?
- What happens when we lose our mind?

When renowned neuroscientist Barbara Lipska's melanoma spread to her brain it started to play tricks on her. The expert on mental illness - a specialist in how the brain operates - experienced what it is like to go mad. Analyzing the science of the mind and the biology of the brain alongisde Dr Lipska's own extraordinary story, this is a fascinating account of what happens when the brain goes awry.

'Oliver Sacks-meets-When Breath Becomes Air ... Barbara Lipska's remarkable story illuminates the many mysteries of our fragile yet resilient brains.' Lisa Genova, bestselling author of Still Alice and Every Note Played