Book Review: The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind

Catherine Lanser
3 min readJun 16, 2018

As I read The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska, I was looking

forward to a medical memoir with the promise of something more. It is the story of a brain scientist who finds out she has multiple tumors that have spread to her brain from a previous melanoma diagnosis. She learns of the tumor as a result of an MRI after part of her field of vision disappears.

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Catherine Lanser

Narrative nonfiction and memoir. Querying my memoir about my family, told through the lens of brain tumor.