Is Susannah Cahalan married?
Stephen Grywalskim. 2015
Susannah Cahalan/Spouse
Did Susannah Cahalan recover?
It took a month for Cahalan to be properly diagnosed and well over a year for her to return to her baseline. But she made a full recovery. Now Cahalan has written a new book, The Great Pretender, which revisits the issues of medical classification and treatment raised in Brain on Fire.
How old was Susannah Cahalan when she was diagnosed?
In 2009, Cahalan was a 24-year-old reporter for the New York Post. But a sudden, puzzling illness made her unrecognizable. Cahalan experienced symptoms ranging from seizures and hallucinations to psychosis and catatonia. Her illness was made even more frustrating by misdiagnoses and dismissals from medical providers.
How long was Susannah Cahalan in the hospital?
Her symptoms frightened family members and baffled a series of doctors. After a monthlong hospital stay and $1 million worth of blood tests and brain scans that proved inconclusive, Cahalan was seen by Dr.
Who saved Susannah Cahalan?
Dr. Souhel Najjar
NY Times best selling author and AE survivor Susannah Cahalan reads from Brain on Fire and has a conversation with the doctor who saved her life, Dr. Souhel Najjar. The Autoimmune Encephalitis Alliance hosted a series of Autoimmune Encephalitis awareness events at Duke University Medical Center, March 26 and 27, 2014.
What caused Susannah Cahalan disease?
Instead, as she recounted in “Brain on Fire,” her best-selling 2012 memoir about her ordeal, she was eventually found to have a rare — or at least newly discovered — neurological disease: anti-NMDA-receptor autoimmune encephalitis. In plain English, Cahalan’s body was attacking her brain.
How did Susannah Cahalan recover?
In plain English, Cahalan’s body was attacking her brain. She was only the 217th person in the world to be diagnosed with the disorder and among the first to receive the concoction of steroids, immunoglobulin infusions and plasmapheresis she credits for her recovery.
What cured Susannah Cahalan?