Emma Powell
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2018.
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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, exhibiting dementia- and schizophrenia-like symptoms. But miraculously, the immunotherapy they had prescribed began to work. Just eight weeks after her nightmare began, Lipska returned to normal, but...