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One of iBook's "Most Anticipated" Titles for Spring Included in the Top 10 of Publishers Weekly's "Spring 2018 Announcements: Memoirs & Biographies"  “Lipska’s evolution as scientist, patient, and person explores the physiological basis of mental illness, while uplifting the importance of personal identity…. Lipska’s prose soars when narrating her experiences… her story is evidence that rich personal narratives offer value to an empirical pursuit of neuroscientific investigation.” —Science Magazine "This is the story, harrowing yet redemptive, of Barbara Lipska, stricken at 63 with a form of brain cancer. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, cowritten with Elaine McArdle, is the tale she lived to tell...If Lipska’s book is about 'what it’s actually like to lose your mind and then recover it,' it’s also about a new frontier in cancer care and the vertiginous trajectories for recovery being opened up...Imbued with scientific insight...Pondering the term 'survivor,' Lipska finds the dictionary definition—someone who perseveres and 'remains functional and usable'—resonant. Her mind and body battered, she wonders if she meets this standard. If this memoir is any guide, she more than measures up to it."—Weekly Standard "What is it like to have your mind thrust into the depths of madness and pulled back out again? In startling detail and with keen insight, Barbara Lipska, leading neuroscientist and mental illness expert, describes her own harrowing, albeit temporary, descent into extreme mental illness in her moving new memoir. While her nightmare only lasted eight weeks, Lipska's experience — one she fully remembers — upended the way she looked mental illness, in herself and others. A remarkable story about strength, endurance, and human's capacity for recovery, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind truly captures what it is like to struggle with mental illness."—Bustle, "10 New Books About Mental Illness To Read In 2018" "It’s not often a research scientist, especially one who studies mental illness and the brain, experiences their specialty first hand, and it’s even more rare with this sort of mental break, medical or behavioral. If you enjoyed My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor or Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan, this is the memoir you want to read in 2018."—KXSU Seattle "[An] urgent memoir...Though Lipska's recovery is extraordinary, her suffering and its effect on her family are familiar to anyone impacted by devastating illness. Her experiences provide empathy and understanding for people whose behavior is beyond their control. Lipska is a survivor, and readers will be all the wiser because of it."—Shelf Awareness, Starred Review “A harrowing, intimately candid survivor's journey.”—Kirkus Reviews "[A] fast-paced memoir...exhilarating."—Publishers Weekly "As a director of the National Institute of Mental Health who focused on the impact of schizophrenia on the brain, Lipska knew a thing or two about mental illness. But she knew considerably more after she exhibited signs of the disease and came back from the brink with amazing insights...Her story conveys deep understanding about the brain and how disease, injury, and age can change our very selves."—Booklist “Lipska recounts her ordeal with equal parts raw honesty and clear-eyed conviction. Her brush with death changed her physically, mentally and emotionally, and lead to a realization that the tragedy of an unlived life should be feared more than death itself.”—BookPage"Barbara Lipska is the director of the Human Brain Collection Core at the National Institute of Mental Health in Virginia. Over the course of two months in 2015, she found herself on the strangest journey of her life. She was diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma that had metastasized to her brain, a seemingly terminal condition that mimicked the symptoms of dementia and schizophrenia. Remarkably, her immunotherapy regimen was successful; equally remarkable, she has recreated that period of mental illness and cognitive trauma on the pages of this unusual memoir."—Toronto Globe & Mail“Oliver Sacks meets When Breath Becomes Air in this fascinating, page-turning account of insanity.  Barbara Lipska's remarkable story illuminates the many mysteries of our fragile yet resilient brains, and her harrowing journey and astonishing recovery show us that nothing is impossible.”—Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice and Every Note Played "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 best-selling author of Every Patient Tells a Story “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 who is uniquely qualified to describe her titanic battle against malignant melanoma of the brain.  Barbara Lipska clearly believes in those miracles that can be achieved through medical science, and also has an iron resolve to survive.  Both qualities underpin this remarkable account of sanity lost and regained.”—Frank Vertosick, author of When the Air Hits Your Brain "An extraordinary chronicle.  Barbara Lipska's story is inspiring and painful, but most of all it is a tribute to the human spirit told with the insight of a scientist and the love of a truly compassionate soul.  I was hooked from the first page and could not put this down until the final sentence."—Thomas Insel, co-founder and president of Mindstrong Health and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health "In this fascinating book, â€‹a neuroscientist​ describes the terrifying symptoms she suffered as a result of multiple brain tumors. 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 illnesses that she spends her life studying. The book is compelling and powerful, and hard to put down."—Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London "The doctor becomes the patient in this fascinating memoir."—BookstalkerBlog "Diving inside some of the deepest mysteries of the human mind with someone who has spent her life studying exactly that, Barbara K. Lipska’s The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind describes the leading neuroscientist’s own descent into madness — triggered by an aggressive cancer that spread to her brain, miraculously retreated just months later, and left Lipska not only with her memories intact, but with a whole lot more insight (and even more questions) into the human brain."—Bustle, "14 Debut Books By Women Coming Out In 2018 That You Need In Your TBR Pile"

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About the Author

BARBARA K. LIPSKA is the director of the Human Brain Collection Core at the National Institute of Mental Health, where she studies mental illness and human brain development. ELAINE McARDLE is an award-winning journalist who has written for the Boston Globe and many other publications.  

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Product details

Hardcover: 208 pages

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 3, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1328787303

ISBN-13: 978-1328787309

Product Dimensions:

6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.4 out of 5 stars

111 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#81,816 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Ms. Lipska tells a horrifying tale of waking up one morning and not realizing it was inappropriate to take her morning run with hair dye and a plastic cap on her head. In retrospect, it was the first sign of something very, very wrong. Later, she realized she couldn't see her right hand, and realized that the vision in her right quadrant was missing. Most of us would have raced to the doctor/hospital at that point (especially where Ms. Lipska was a two-time cancer survivor), but her judgement was impaired enough that she worried about missing a conference and ski trip. A call to her doctor to humor her husband was met with alarm, not a chuckle and the hope she would enjoy herself (she really thought that!), she went for an MRI of her brain, which was arranged with amazing speed. One wonders if Ms. Lipska wasn't a reknowned neuroscientist, would she have gotten an MRI appointment so quickly.Sadly, the imaging found three brain tumors, a recurrance of one of the cancers she had thought was gone. Ms. Lipski's sister is plugged into the Partners Medical Group (Some of Boston's most respected hospitals and physicians), and she was able to get Ms. Lipski a super-quick appointment. After a delay of a few days because of a blizzard, she began treatment. During this time, Ms. Lipski underwent what can only be described as a descent into madness. Everything we most value about ourselves, our personality and intellegence, was stripped from her.Miraculously, Ms. Lipski recovered from her cancer, and more miraculously, recovered from the insanity she suffered while in its grip. But even though she has recovered, she remembers everything, which is incredibly unusual. She is now in the nearly unique position of a person who is able to tell what she was thinking and feeling while insane.The book grabbed me in the first few pages and was unwilling to let me go until I finished, and I find myself thinking of some of the small details afterward. She does a wonderful job of communicating her horror at remembering her bout with insanity, and her relief at recovering. It is her feelings and descriptions of them that makes the book fascinating.This is a quick read, only a few hours, but those hours will be quite intense. I myself was so engrossed in the book that I snapped at my husband for announcing dinner was ready. If you have the least interest in the mind and its workings, I think you will find this book impossible to put down.

This is a wonderful and easy read. Never boring, Dr. Lipska shares her ups and downs with clarity and honesty. If you have experienced mental health issues yourself, or watched as a loved one struggles with theirs, you will easily recognize the frustratingly blurry perceptions that are the realities of those affected.We should all be so lucky to have the very talented and loving family that shared in this journey. Physical fitness is a strong part of both Dr. Lipska’s and her family’s profile. As a triathlete, I felt as though I was with a good friend as she shared her story. Dr. Lipska is every bit an Ironman in her courage, drive, and personality. She has seen great success and persevered through very tough times as she makes her way intelligently and lovingly through life. This was a pleasure to read.

Gives hope to those with metastasis melanoma yet shows the struggles to survive.Emphasizes the need to become very educated about your illness as well as all possible treatmentsShows how important it is to have a team approach to treatmentDemonstrates the need to be vocal about your options and treatment plansThe author’s ability to relate her life experience to the human brain was so insightful

Dr. Lipska's three decades of postmortem study of brains recovered from people with mental illness is remarkable itself. Her own subsequent brain illness, with symptoms identical to mental illness she studied, is horrifying and fascinating. Yet, she recovers and maintains her family and professional support system, and repairs and recovers potentially damaged relationships. A clear, thorough, well-told odyssey.Five years after grad school, I suffered severe traumatic brain injury, primarily to prefrontal cortex. I underwent profound personality and mood changes. Within two years of injury, with professional and relational help, I completed post graduate work and licensure. After 29 years, I continue to work with people with serious mental illness.Dr. Lipska's telling connects many symptoms of mental illnesss with what is known of the brain. She so clearly describes gaps in scientific knowledge of cognitive and emotional functions of the brain. Yet mental illness is irrefutablybrain illness.This is a book I am sharing with patients and their families, to help them understand more fully that their behavior is caused by a brain illness. Perhaps my family also can read and better understand.

As a two-time cancer survivor, just finishing chemo & radiation, with mental illness in our family, I appreciate this book!I admire you and your family, very brave.Time to acknowledge the brain WITH the body.✌

I turned off the TV so I could read the book without interruptions. Very well written with no wasted words. I learned a lot about brain damage.

This book not ONLY tells her story, but is filled with fascinating information about the brain and how each part functions. As someone who is beyond interested in psychology, this book captured my attention from start to finish. It was VERY easy to delve into. The ONLY hard part was seeing just how much she changed and treated her family members. However, it also just goes to show, just how delicate and precious our brains are. I would highly recommend this book!

Despite knowing nothing of neuroscience I identified deeply with this woman and her struggle. As both a stroke survivor and someone who has also regained lost sanity, I found this to be an empowering read. Her descriptions of madness brought back memories of my own but this book is so well-written and captivating I finished it all on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Easy to zip through with concise explanations of medical and scientific jargon included in the text. I give it an A+ despite an ending scene that comes off more hokey than triumphant.

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