 | | 書 名 | Brain on fire :： my month of madness / | | 作 者 | by SusannahCahalan | | 出 版 項 | New York :; Simon & Schuster,; 2013 | | 稽 核 項 | xiv, [273] p. :; ill. ;; 24 cm | | 標 題 | Cahalan, Susannah | | 標 題 | Cahalan, Susannah | | 標 題 | Cahalan, Susannah | | 標 題 | Cahalan, Susannah | | 標 題 | Cahalan, Susannah | | 標 題 | Encephalitis | | 標 題 | Autoimmune diseases | | 標 題 | Frontal lobes | | 標 題 | Limbic system | | 標 題 | Diagnostic errors | | 標 題 | Encephalitis | | 標 題 | Autoimmune diseases | | 標 題 | Frontal lobes | | 標 題 | Limbic system | | 標 題 | Diagnostic errors | | 標 題 | Encephalitis | | 標 題 | Diagnostic Errors | | 標 題 | WL351 | | 附 註 項 | First Simon & schuster trade paper edition August 2013 | | 書 目 註 | Includes bibliographical references | | 內 容 註 | Bedbug blues -- The girl in the black lace bra -- Carota -- The wrestler -- Cold roses -- America's most wanted --On the road again -- Out-of-body experience -- A touch ofmadness -- Mixed episodes -- Keppra -- The ruse -- Buddha-- Search and seizure -- The Capgras delusion -- Postictalfury -- Multiple personality disorder -- Breaking news --Big man -- The slope of the line -- Death withinterruptions -- A beautiful mess -- Dr. Najjar -- IVIG --Blue devil fit -- The clock -- Brain biopsy -- Shadowboxer-- Dalmau's disease -- Rhubarb -- The big reveal -- 90percent -- Homecoming -- California dreamin' -- Thevideotape -- Stuffed animals -- Wild at heart -- Friends -- Within normal limits -- Umbrella -- Chronology --Infinite jest -- NDMA -- Partial return -- The five w's --Grand rounds -- The exorcist -- Survivor's guilt --Hometown boy makes good -- Ecstatic -- Flight risk? --Madame X -- The purple lady | | 摘 要 註 | The story of twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan and thelife-saving discovery of the autoimmune disorder thatnearly killed her -- and that could perhaps be the root of"demonic possessions" throughout history | | 摘 要 註 | One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke upalone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed,under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristbandmarked her as a "flight risk," and her medical records,chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had nomemory at all, showed hallucinations, violence, anddangerous instability. Only weeks earlier, Susannah hadbeen on the threshold of a new, adult life, a healthy,ambitious college grad a few months into her first seriousrelationship and a promising career as a cub reporter at amajor New York newspaper. Who was the stranger who hadtaken over her body? What was happening to her mind? Inthis narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true storyof her inexplicable descent into madness and thelifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn't happen. A team ofdoctors would spend a month, and more than a milliondollars, trying desperately to pin down a medicalexplanation for what had gone wrong. Meanwhile, as thedays passed and her family, boyfriend, and friendshelplessly stood watch by her bed, she began to moveinexorably through psychosis into catatonia and,ultimately, toward death. Yet even as this period nearlytore her family apart, it offered an extraordinarytestament to their faith in Susannah and their refusal tolet her go. Then, neurologist Souhel Najjar joined herteam and, with he help of a lucky, ingenious test, savedher life. He recognized the symptoms of a newly discoveredautoimmune disorder in which the body attacks th brain, adisease now thought to be tied to both schizophrenia andautism, and perhaps the root of "demonic possessions"throughout history. This story is the powerful account ofone woman's struggle to recapture her identity and torediscover herself among the fragments left behind. Usingall her considerable journalistic skills, and buildingfrom hospital records and surveillance video, interviewswith family and friends, and excerpts from the deeplymoving journal her father kept during her illness,Susannah pieces together the story of her "lost month" towrite an unforgettable memoir about memory and identity,faith and love | | ISBN | 9781451621389 | | ISBN | 9781451621372 | | ISBN | 145162137X | | LCCN | 2012012670 |
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