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" (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)
'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
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
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. London. Bantam Press. 2018. First Edition/First Printing (1 in number line on copyright page). Hard Cover. Blue cloth boards with white titles. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are new. Some monochrome illustrations and photographs in the text. 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 alongside Dr Lipska's own extraordinary story, this is a powerful account of what happens when the brain fails. Nº de ref. del artículo: DEC29006
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