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Brain on Fire

by Susannah Cahalan

  • FINISHED
  • Finished July 2017
  • First published 2012

neurology brain disorders memoir

A young journalist recounts a month of psychosis and seizures that turned out to be an autoimmune attack on her brain.   She reconstructs the illness from medical records, video and family accounts, and describes how it was finally diagnosed.