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Cahalan, Susannah.
Brain on fire
[BOOK] :
my month of madness /
Susannah Cahalan.
First Free Press hardcover edition.
New York :
Free Press,
2012.
xii, 264 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm.
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An account of the author's struggle with a rare brain-attacking autoimmune disease traces how she woke up in a hospital room with no memory of baffling psychotic symptoms, describing the last-minute intervention by a doctor who identified the source of her illness.
20121129.
Cahalan, Susannah
Health.
Cahalan, Susannah
Mental health.
Limbic system
Diseases
Patients
United States
Biography.
Encephalitis
Patients
United States
Biography.
Frontal lobes
Diseases
Patients
United States
Biography.
Diagnostic errors
United States
Case studies.
Autoimmune diseases
Patients
United States
Biography.
Biographies.
Case studies.
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