I was the first person in NYU Medical Center’s history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote
It’s hard to imagine a time when lobster pots weren’t part of a well-equipped kitchen, but America’s love affair with the two-clawed crustaceans didn’t start until the 1800s. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote
Read enough books on the body, and you’ll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote
In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon – in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That’s right. One person comes up in tests as two different people. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote
Amy Adams is a lucky woman. Not only is she one of Hollywood’s most talented actresses, with five Oscar nominations under her fashionable belt, she actually smells sexy. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote
I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote
My own medical history during my hospital stay was readily available to me through literally thousands of pages of medical records that outlined everything from my ‘bowel releasing’ schedule to the minute details of my brain biopsy procedure. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote
To hear the words ‘autoimmune encephalitis’ in a movie is amazing to me, and I’m so proud. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote
NMDA receptors are concentrated in the areas that control learning and memory, higher functions like multitasking, and some of the more subtle aspects of personality. When the immune system makes antibodies that attack these receptors, people may have seizures and violent fits. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote
History is filled with weird but true stories of social contagion – from dancing manias in the Middle Ages to nuns pretending to be cats in the 19th century to laughing epidemics of Tanzanian school girls in the 1960s. Susannah Cahalan Read Quote