The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

Brain diseases, head injuries and age-related changes can affect our behavior, destroy our personality and distort our memory. How does a person feel and perceive reality when illness affects different areas of his or her brain? What parts of our self remain with us even when so much is gone? How does our life change when our "main processor" starts to malfunction? And how do we know when something is wrong? Neurophysiologist Barbara Lipska devoted her life to studying the work of the central nervous system in mental disorders, but one day she herself started to have mental disorders (the cause was metastatic brain melanoma). Being an experienced specialist, Barbara tried to analyze what was happening to her, did not give up, did not give up. Not only did she successfully cope with her debilitating illness and return to her research and triathlon competitions, but she also shared her unique experience with readers, showing every stage of the changes that happened to her. This is Barbara's story, co-authored with journalist Elaine McArdle, is about more than just and not so much her struggle with a serious illness. Before you is a very sincere, exciting and inspiring story about courage, love, overcoming difficulties, support, understanding and acceptance of oneself.