![]() ![]() Souhel Najjar, Cahalan’s doctor, joined the author for a Q-and-A session at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016. I examined the yellow, fillet-sized mass in my hands until the object came into focus: it was an anatomically correct brain with wrinkly grooves and two identical hemispheres. A candle? But this had no botanical scent or wick, no obvious way to hold a flame. “It’s a candle,” my brother, James, said. I stared at the unwrapped gift, struggling to recognize what I was holding. Here, Cahalan shares an excerpted update from the 10th-anniversary edition of the book, out later this month. Her story, including a remarkable recovery, turned into the 2012 best-selling memoir “Brain on Fire” and later a movie of the same name. In 2009, Susannah Cahalan - then a Sunday reporter at The Post - wrote about her “ mysterious lost month of madness.” After a spate of numbness, sleeplessness, wild mood swings, psychosis and seizures, she spent a month in the hospital, misdiagnosed with serious mental illness, before doctors discovered she was the 217 th person in the world to be diagnosed with a newly discovered brain disease: autoimmune encephalitis. I thought I had long COVID - but it was a 10-year-old tumor ![]() Influencer hospitalized after horse falls on her at Arizona ranch, has no memory of fame ![]() Pregnant influencer fighting for her life after aneurysm just before due dateīrain shape may strongly influence thoughts and behavior, study finds ![]()
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