Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (908 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B009VSFJ6C |
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| Number of Pages | : | 458 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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The exhausted doctors were ready to commit her to the psychiatric ward, until the celebrated neurologist, Dr. In 2009, Susannah Cahalan woke up in a strange hospital room strapped to a bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. With sharp reporting drawn from hospital records, scientific research, and interviews with doctors and family, Brain on Fire is a crackling mystery and an unflinching, gripping personal story that marks the debut of an extraordinary writer.. Souhel Najjar, joined her team. Over one million dollars worth of blood tests and brain scans revealed nothing. Susannah's astonishing memoir chronicles the swift path of her illness and the lucky, last-minute intervention led by one of the few doctors capable of saving her life. With the use of a simple - yet ingenious - test, he was able to make a lifesaving diagnosis - revealing a newly discovered autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks the brain. Yet, only weeks earlier she had been a healthy, ambitious twenty-four-year-old, six months into her first serious relationship and a sparkling career as a cub reporter. Her medical records - from a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory - reported psychosis, violence, and dangerous instability. Weeks ticked by and Susannah moved inexplicably from violen