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100 1 Cahalan, Susannah,|eauthor.
245 10 Brain on fire :|bmy month of madness /|cSusannah Cahalan.
250 First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
264 1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c2013.
264 4 |c©2012
300 xiv, 266 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 "With a new afterword"--Cover.
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261).
505 0 Part 1. Crazy -- Bedbug blues -- The girl in the black
lace bra -- Carota -- The wrestler -- Cold roses --
America's most wanted -- On the road again -- Out-of-body
experience -- A touch of madness -- Mixed episodes --
Keppra -- The ruse -- Buddha -- Search and seizure -- Part
2. The clock -- The Capgras delusion -- Postictal fury --
Multiple personality disorder -- Breaking news -- Big man
-- The slope of the line -- Death with interruptions -- A
beautiful mess -- Dr. Najjar -- IVIG -- Blue devil fit --
The clock -- Brain biopsy -- Shadowboxer -- Dalmau's
disease -- Rhubarb -- The big reveal -- 90 percent --
Homecoming -- California dreamin' -- Part 3. In search of
lost time -- The videotape -- Stuffed animals -- Wild at
heart -- Friends -- Within normal limits -- Umbrella --
Chronology -- Infinite jest -- NDMA -- Partial return --
The five W's -- Grand rounds -- The exorcist -- Survivor's
guilt -- Hometown boy makes good -- Ecstatic -- Flight
risk? -- Madame X -- The purple lady.
520 One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up
alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed,
under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband
marked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records,
chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no
memory at all, showed hallucinations, violence, and
dangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah had
been on the threshold of a new, adult life, a healthy,
ambitious college grad a few months into her first serious
relationship and a promising career as a cub reporter at a
major New York newspaper. Who was the stranger who had
taken over her body? What was happening to her mind? In
this narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story
of her inexplicable descent into madness and the
lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen. A team of
doctors would spend a month, and more than a million
dollars, trying desperately to pin down a medical
explanation for what had gone wrong. Meanwhile, as the
days passed and her family, boyfriend, and friends
helplessly stood watch by her bed, she began to move
inexorably through psychosis into catatonia and,
ultimately, toward death. Yet even as this period nearly
tore her family apart, it offered an extraordinary
testament to their faith in Susannah and their refusal to
let her go. Then, neurologist Souhel Najjar joined her
team and, with the help of a lucky, ingenious test, saved
her life. He recognized the symptoms of a newly discovered
autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks the brain, a
disease now thought to be tied to both schizophrenia and
autism, and perhaps the root of "demonic possessions"
throughout history. This story is the powerful account of
one woman's struggle to recapture her identity and to
rediscover herself among the fragments left behind. Using
all her considerable journalistic skills, and building
from hospital records and surveillance video, interviews
with family and friends, and excerpts from the deeply
moving journal her father kept during her illness,
Susannah pieces together the story of her "lost month" to
write an unforgettable memoir about memory and identity,
faith and love.
600 10 Cahalan, Susannah|xHealth.
600 10 Cahalan, Susannah|xMental health.
600 10 Cahalan, Susannah.
600 17 Cahalan, Susannah.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01912263
650 0 Encephalitis|xPatients|zUnited States|vBiography.
650 0 Encephalitis|xPatients|xPsychological aspects|vBiography.
650 0 Autoimmune diseases|xPatients|zUnited States|vBiography.
650 0 Autoimmune diseases|xPatients|xPsychological aspects
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650 0 Frontal lobes|xDiseases|xPatients|zUnited States
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650 0 Limbic system|xDiseases|xPatients|zUnited States
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650 0 Diagnostic errors|zUnited States|vCase studies.
650 0 Patients|zUnited States|vBiography.
650 0 Limbic system|xDiseases|xPatients|vBiography.
650 0 Brain|xDiseases|xPatients|vBiography.
650 0 Autoimmune diseases|xPatients|vBiography.
650 0 Encephalitis|xPatients|vBiography.
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650 7 Health.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00952743
650 7 Mental health.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01016339
650 12 Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis.
650 22 Encephalitis.
651 7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155
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655 7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686
655 7 Case studies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423765
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