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

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Publisher's Synopsis

'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

When renowned neuroscientist Barbara Lipska's melanoma spread to her brain it started to play tricks on her. The expert on mental illness - an expert in how the brain operates - experienced what it is like to go mad. All we think, feel and dream, how we move, if we move, everything that makes us who we are, comes from the brain. So what happens when we lose our mind?

Analyzing the science of the mind and the biology of the brain alongisde Dr Lipska's own extraordinary story, this is a powerful account of what happens when the brain fails.

'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

About the Publisher

Bantam Press

Bantam Books, established in 1945, is one of the most successful publishers of adult fiction and nonfiction. Dell Publishing, a leading publisher of adult fiction and nonfiction for over seven decades.

Book information

ISBN: 9780593078921
Publisher: Transworld
Imprint: Bantam Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 616.890092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 334g
Height: 145mm
Width: 224mm
Spine width: 23mm