Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Author: Cahalan, SusannahEdition: 1Binding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 288Release Date: 13-11-2012Details: A gripping memoir and medical suspense story about a young New York Post reporter’s struggle with a rare and terrifying disease, opening anew window into the fascinating world of brain science. One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-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 month-long 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 swift and breath