A patient memoir titled "Brain on Fire" and a film based on the book have increased awareness of the disease first identified in 2005. Anti-NMDAR encephalitis is rare and primarily affects young ...

This is also true of Tyler Perry ... I think the most powerful part of Brain On Fire is that the most frightening and disturbing aspects of Susannah’s illness were depicted in a way that ...

Cahalan documented the experience in her memoir, “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness,” which is out in paperback this week. Looking back, Cahalan said she still struggles to identify with her old self ...