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In 2009 2009, Susannah Cahalan woke up in a strange medical center room strapped to a foundation, under officer, and struggling to move or speak. Her medical data - from a month-long medical center stay which she got no recollection - reported psychosis, assault, and dangerous instability. Yet, only weeks before she had been a healthy, ambitious twenty-four-year-old, six months into her first serious marriage and a gleaming career as a cub reporter. Susannah's amazing memoir chronicles the swift course of her health issues and the blessed, last-minute intervention led by one of the few doctors with the capacity of saving her life. Weeks ticked by and Susannah relocated inexplicably from assault to catatonia. Over one million dollars worth of blood vessels tests and brain scans discovered nothing. The worn out doctors were ready to commit her to the psychiatric ward, until the famous neurologist, Dr. Souhel Najjar, joined up with her team. By using a straightforward - yet clever - test, he was able to make a lifesaving prognosis - disclosing a newly discovered autoimmune disorder where the body attacks the mind. With sharpened reporting attracted from hospital data, scientific research, and interviews with doctors and family, Brain on Fireplace is a crackling secret and an unflinching, gripping personal history that marks the debut of a fantastic writer.
