A neuroscientist who studies mental illness gets cancer and suddenly her personality changes so much that she can reflect on it later and be amazed. At the time, however, she didn't notice the change and her family and co-workers struggled to act like it was stress from her illness rather than the illness itself. I like medical memoirs and this one is interesting, the author was raised and educated in Poland, coming to the U.S. as an adult to work in her field. How, I have to ask, did she and her circle not see that her personality changes were related to her illness? It sort of defies logic. Still, the science and medical stuff is very interesting. The audio version irritated because the narrator's accent seemed all wrong to me. I finished the book in print.
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