“For me to really understand the brain, being a neuroscientist wasn’t enough I had to become a storyteller,” she said.
As much as she scoured the resources available to her, there was very little that detailed the experience of a person with the disease, which led to her second career as an author. I could relate to her as a neuroscientist, but I had no clue how to relate to her as a granddaughter.”įinding that empathy for her now-deceased grandmother was a struggle for Genova. “Even armed with my PhD in neuroscience from Harvard and all of this education, I still didn’t know how to be with my grandmother. “Without adding empathy, my understanding of Alzheimer’s was limited,” she said. Genova, who graduated from Harvard in 1998 with a PhD in neuroscience, told the audience in the Center for the Arts that she understood what her grandmother was going through from a scientific level, but she didn’t know how to sit in the same room as her. But last week, in front of a large UB Distinguished Speakers Series crowd, she admitted she lacked a full understanding of the disease when her grandmother was affected by it. As a neuroscientist, Lisa Genova’s scientific knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease is naturally much greater than the average person.
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