O filme está baseado nas memorias escritas por Susannah Cahalan , Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness e está protagonizado por Chloë Grace Moretz , Jenny Slate , Thomas Mann , Tyler Perry , Carrie-Anne Moss e Richard Armitage . [1][2][3] She has worked for the New York Post. The book also covers Cahalan's life after her recovery, including her reactions to watching videotapes of her psychotic episodes while in the hospital.

Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea! NPR commented that the author was "a naturally talented prose stylist" and that "she perfectly tempers her brutal honesty with compassion and something like vulnerability. She woke up in a hospital with no memory of the events of the previous month, during which time she had violent episodes and delusions. [2] Eventually several physicians, including Dr. Souhel Najjar, began to suspect that Cahalan was suffering from an autoimmune disease. In the work she accuses prominent psychologist David Rosenhan of fabricating the results of seminal research published in the journal "Science".

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Her eventual diagnosis was made more difficult by various physicians misdiagnosing her with several theories such as "partying too much" and schizoaffective disorder. Brain on Fire is a 2016 biographical drama film directed& written by Gerard Barrett based on Susannah Cahalan's memoir "Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness." Based on the book, 'Brain On Fire', the true story of Susannah Cahalan, a journalist for the New York Post.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is a 2012 New York Times Best­selling au­to­bi­og­ra­phy by New York Post writer Su­san­nah Ca­ha­lan. Her eventual diagnosis was made more difficult by various physicians misdiagnosing her with several theories such as "partying too much" and schizoaffective disorder. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is a 2012 New York Times best-selling autobiography by New York Post writer Susannah Cahalan. The film follows the harrowing experience of a writer struggling with a rare neurological disease from when she first suffers symptoms to the many attempts at diagnosing it and the eventual discovery of the real cause of her illness. [8], In May 2014, it was announced that the book was being adapted into a film of the same name starring Chloë Grace Moretz[9] and produced by Cahalan and Charlize Theron.

She has worked for the New York Post. In addition to three months in a medically-induced coma, he experienced a 145-day memory gap and lost … [4], A feature film based on her memoir was released in June 2016 on Netflix. Brain on Fire is a 2016 biographical drama film directed and written by Irish filmmaker Gerard Barrett.