2022/32: The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind -- Barbara Lipska
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022 07:55 am2022/32: The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind -- Barbara Lipska
...the same brain structure that I sabotaged in thousands of rodents will begin to malfunction, spectacularly, in my own brain. [loc. 422]
Barbara Lipska, director of the Human Brain Collection Core at the National Institute of Mental Health, developed a model of how brain damage can cause schizophrenia. Then she began to experience visual distrubances and behavourial changes, which turned out to be caused by tumours in her own brain.
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