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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 ]
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 autoimmune disease, anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.
New York Post reporter Susannah Cahalan wrote a book titled Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness about her experience with the disease. [37] This has subsequently been turned into a film of the same name. [40] Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Amobi Okoye spent 17 months battling anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. In addition to three months in a ...
“Brain on Fire” author Susannah Cahalan shared her “month of madness” on TODAY 12 years ago. In a personal essay, she writes about what’s happened since.
Brain on Fire is a 2016 biographical drama film directed and written by Irish filmmaker Gerard Barrett. The film is based on Susannah Cahalan 's memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness and stars Chloë Grace Moretz , Jenny Slate , Thomas Mann , Tyler Perry , Carrie-Anne Moss , and Richard Armitage .
Souhel Najjar (Arabic: سهيل نجار) is a Syrian-American neurologist whose story with Susannah Cahalan turned into an American drama film. [1] [2] [3] He is considered an expert in the field of encephalopathy, specifically the treatment of encephalitis. He was selected as a recipient of the 2022 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. [4]
The most frequent initial symptoms of Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis are drowsiness, gait disturbances, and diplopia. Throughout the course of the disorder, almost every patient develops ataxia and external ophthalmoplegia. Most patients have disturbances of consciousness such as stupor, drowsiness, or coma.
Touched with Fire may refer to: Touched with Fire (book), a book by the American psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison; Touched with Fire (film), a 2015 American drama film