In Brain on Fire, the journalist reconstructs — through hospital security videotapes and interviews with her friends, family and the doctors who finally managed to save her life — her hellish experience as a victim of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.14 Nov 2012
What happened in Brain on Fire?
In Netflix's new movie, Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a writer who suddenly begins to go through a series of strange experiences — hallucinations, erratic behavior, being in a trance — until she suffers a seizure and ends up in the hospital, waking up with no memory of the previous month.22 Jun 2018
What illness does Suzanne have in Brain on Fire?
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.27 Nov 2019
What disease does Savannah have in Brain on Fire?
As Najjar put it to her parents, "her brain was on fire." This discovery led to her eventual diagnosis and treatment for anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a rare autoimmune disease that can attack the brain. Cahalan says that doctors think the illness may account for cases of "demonic possession" throughout history.14 Nov 2012