Susannah Cahalan

The KnitWits Reading Group will meet at Common Thread on June 18 at 6:30 pm to discuss Brain on fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Calahan.

If you are a member of this reading group, please stop by The Northshire Bookstore to pick up your reserved copy of this title (and receive a 20% discount).

We currently have so many excited readers that this group is full. For more information about the group or to be put on the waiting list please contact ReadingGroupsNY@northshire.com.

Location: Street: Common Thread Additional: 508 Broadway City: Saratoga Springs, Province: New York Postal Code: 12866 Country: United States (adicionado a partir de IndieBound)… (mais)

Susannah Cahalan

Thursday, May 29, 7:30 p.m. Brain on fire: My Month of Madness

An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.

When 24-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn’t happen.

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (adicionado a partir de IndieBound)… (mais)

This event will be held at Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY.

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In 2009, New York Post reporter Susannah Cahalan, a healthy 24-year-old, began to experience numbness, paranoia, sensitivity to light and erratic behavior. She began to experience seizures, hallucinations, increasingly psychotic behavior and even catatonia.Her symptoms frightened family members and baffled a series of doctors. After a month-long hospital stay and $1 million worth of blood tests and brain scans that proved inconclusive, Cahalan was seen by Dr. Souhel Najjar, who asked her to draw a clock on a piece of paper. "I drew a circle, and I drew the numbers 1 to 12 all on the right-hand side of the clock, so the left-hand side was blank, completely blank," she tells Fresh Air's Dave Davies, "which showed him that I was experiencing left-side spatial neglect and, likely, the right side of my brain responsible for the left field of vision was inflamed."

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.

--NPR Books Bookforum called Brain on fire: My Month of Madness: "An intense, mesmerizing account of survival. . . Cahalan's deft descriptions of her spooky hallucinations could be right out of a Poe terror tale."

Location: Street: 6422 Montgomery St., Suite 6 City: Rhinebeck, Province: New York Postal Code: 12572-0482 Country: United States (adicionado a partir de IndieBound)… (mais)

Join us as Susannah Cahalan reads from and signs her new book "Brain on fire: My Month of Madness."

Susannah Cahalan was a healthy twenty-four-year-old when she suddenly started showing signs of mania. Seizures, memory loss and paranoia followed, quickly progressing to psychosis and near-death catatonia. A million dollars’ worth of medical tests revealed nothing—until she was rescued by the lucky, ingenious intervention of an extraordinary doctor, Souhel Najjar. Dr. Najjar diagnosed her with the newly discovered autoimmune disorder, anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis, in which her body was waging a full scale attack on her brain. In Brain on fire, Susannah chronicles her breathtaking descent into madness, the terrifying loss of identity it entailed, and the moving account of her family and boyfriend’s refusal to give up hope

Location: Street: 4736-38 N Lincoln Ave City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60625 Country: United States (adicionado a partir de IndieBound)… (mais)

Tuesday, August 13 at 7PM

New York Times Best Selling Author Susannah Cahalan Speaking and Signing Brain on fire: My Month of Madness ABOUT Brain on fire: MY MONTH OF MADNESS An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.

When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Susannah tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn’t happen. “A fascinating look at the disease that . . . could have cost this vibrant, vital young woman her life” (People), Brain on fire is an unforgettable exploration of memory and identity, faith and love, and a profoundly compelling tale of survival and perseverance that is destined to become a classic.

Susannah Cahalan is a news reporter at the New York Post whose award-winning work has also been featured in The New York Times. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey with her boyfriend and dog Gus, the Spinone

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