Brain on fire [large print] my month of madness / Susannah Cahalan.
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 monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all--showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Cahalan tells the astonishing true story of her inexplicable descent into madness and the brilliant, 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. Then, at the last minute, celebrated 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.
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- ISBN: 1611736781
- ISBN: 9781611736786
- Physical Description: 399 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Center Point large print edition.
- Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2013.
- Copyright: ©2012
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- Includes chapter notes (p. 369-389).
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | LP BIO CAH (Text) | 37810435123186 | Adult Large Print Biography | Available | - |
| Dorothy Wightman Library | LBP CAHALAN CAH (Text) | 30372101261540 | Adult Large Print Biography | Available | - |
| Harnett County Main Library | LgPrt 616.8 Cal (Text) | 33630004279084 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | 616.832 C (Text) | 33258007148252 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| High Point Library | LP 616.832 Cahalan (Text) | 30519008048376 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Lexington Public Library | LP 616.83 C (Text) | 25908006380328 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Statesville Main Library | L.P. 616.832009 CAH (Text) | 33114017546540 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Watauga County Public Library | LP 616.8 CAH (Text) | 50502011354622 | Adult Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
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