Barbara K. Lipska
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
- By: Barbara K. Lipska
- Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: April 03, 2018
- Language: English
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In January 2015, Barbara Lipska-a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness-was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness,... Read more
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