In 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 began shutting down and she began exhibiting symptoms of dementia and schizophrenia. Lipska details this journey and her miraculous recovery in her new book, The Neuroscientist: My Tale of Madness and Recovery. She explains how mental illness, brain injury, and age can change our behavior, personality, cognition, and memory.

Barbara Lipska will be in conversation with Jake Halpern on April 4 at 7 pm at The Rubin Museum (150 W 17th Street) as part of The Rubin's Brainwave Series.