![]() ![]() Souhel Najjar, a Syrian-American neurologist, after a month in the hospital. There were also seizures with “blood and foam” spurting from Cahalan’s mouth, indicating a neurological condition rather than mental illness.Ĭahalan was seen by Dr. Grandiosity, hysteria, fits of irrational anger, nonsensical utterances and flat catatonic-like effect were among the signs of the condition, which were mostly indistinguishable from one another throughout their early stages. She took $1 million worth of blood tests and brain scans that were inconclusive. Cahalan had the misfortune of becoming a one-of-a-kind and perplexing case: she was gravely ill and rapidly deteriorating, but her MRIs, brain scans and blood tests were all fine. ![]() “An interesting case” is something you don’t want to be to your doctor. Her symptoms alarmed her relatives and perplexed several doctors. Seizures, hallucinations, increasingly erratic actions and even catatonia started to plague her. She started to experience numbness, paranoia, light sensitivity and abnormal behavior in 2009. ![]() ![]() Susannah Cahalan, a 24-year-old reporter for the New York Post, knows what it’s like to be in that situation. Imagine being a journalist juggling several articles, conducting multiple interviews, learning intensely and more, just to have your life turned completely upside down in a matter of months. This image of a brain on fire depicts the inflammatory symptoms of this autoimmune disease. Brain on Fire: A disease almost undocumented in medical history ![]()
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