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- Cahalan actually had an autoimmune disease that caused inflammation of the brain. She wrote about the experience of being misdiagnosed and her eventual recovery in her 2012 memoir.
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Susannah Cahalan (born January 30, 1985) is an American writer and author, known for writing the memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, about her hospitalization with a rare auto-immune disease, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.
Nov 2, 2019 · Instead, as she recounted in “ Brain on Fire,” her best-selling 2012 memoir about her ordeal, she was eventually found to have a rare — or at least newly discovered — neurological disease:...
Dec 7, 2022 · “Brain on Fire” author Susannah Cahalan shared her “month of madness” on TODAY nearly 13 years ago. In a personal essay, she writes about what’s happened since.
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is a 2012 New York Times best-selling autobiography by New York Post writer Susannah Cahalan. The book details Cahalan's struggle with a rare form of encephalitis and her recovery. [1]
Dec 20, 2019 · That’s exactly what happened to Cahalan when she was 24 years old. In her memoir, she walks readers through her journey of medical misdiagnosis, much of which she doesn’t remember but has...
Nov 13, 2012 · When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper.
Oct 20, 2014 · What happened? Susannah Cahalan: It started slowly at first, and then very quickly escalated. At first, it was just feeling off, just like having a bad day. Then, many bad days in a row. I couldn’t concentrate at work.
