Brain on Fire

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZAn award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful acc

Brain on Fire is the stunning debut from journalist and author Susannah Cahalan, recounting the real-life horror story of how a sudden and mysterious illness put her on descent into a madness for whic

A dramatic account of a young New York Post reporter's struggle with a rare brain-attacking autoimmune disease traces how she woke up in a hospital room under guard with no memory of baffling psychoti

One day, Susannah Cahalan woke up in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. Her medical records—from a month-long hospital stay of which she had no mem

This is Leonard Pitt’s story of growing up the misfit in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s. In a later age he would have been put on Ritalin and paraded before psychiatrists because he couldn’t pay attenti

【本書此前版本的主書名皆為《我發瘋的那段日子》，僅副書名不同。各版本的內容無增加。】這種疾病，是「多重人格」的科學新解？「好看極了！」亞馬遜網路書店累計約七千名讀者近滿分好評，全球售出約三十國版權，狂銷數百萬冊，並獲改編為同名電影，真人真事回憶錄，出版十年穩居亞馬遜「醫療專業傳記」Top 20！寫下心理學、神經科學與免疫學研究新頁，國際權威醫學期刊《刺胳針》評道：「精彩懸疑，讓人一口氣讀到最後一頁才罷休。極力推薦。」＊＊＊「完全變了個人是什麼感覺？」起先，卡哈蘭只覺得左手臂不時隱隱刺痛，懷疑遭到蟲咬，然而除蟲專家徹底檢查她的住處後，掛保證沒有蟲害；她上醫院做了多種檢查也沒有查出病因。爾後她的異狀愈來愈多，行為舉止猶如中邪：頻繁恍神、莫名恐慌、幻視幻聽、感覺自己靈魂出竅、動作舉止詭異，而且妄想旁人要害她……終於，她住進了醫院。醫院的精神科、癲癇科和免疫科等各科醫生，安排卡哈蘭做了數百項檢查，結果全部「正常」――然而她精神失常得愈來愈嚴重，可說完全變了個人，甚至無法寫字與溝通，群醫束手無策之下，眼看就要將她送進療養院度過餘生，一名神經病理學家接手了這個個案。這名醫生由於知道三年前才發現的某個疾病，正確診斷而救回了卡哈蘭。從鬼門關回來後，卡哈蘭用她的記者技能，爬梳無數醫療紀錄、她住院治療期間雙親的筆記與日記、醫院的監視影片、相關科學著作等，並訪問了周遭親友、同事、醫生及學者等，細膩描寫病症的發展、自身及至親的心路歷程，同時介紹腦科學領域多種症狀令人驚奇的疾病，呈現科學界對人腦奧妙的探索與了解。蘇珊娜．卡哈蘭的經歷登上全球知名的醫學期刊，這本書亦引發全球熱烈迴響。卡哈蘭罹患的病在歷史上可能存在已久，能解釋某些思覺失調（舊譯為精神分裂）與自閉症病例、甚至被視為「中邪」的情形。這本記錄更新了我們對大腦與免疫系統的認識，並使諸多學門的專業人士認識到，整合研究資源、分享研究成果相當重要。（更詳盡介紹可參閱目錄引文）

Creativity. Think of the word itself for a second. What does it mean to you? Who comes to mind as a creative leader, past or present? What are some companies that thrive on creative thinking? You see

One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a “flight risk

「好看極了！」亞馬遜書店數千名讀者近滿分好評，全美狂銷破 1,000,000 冊，全球售出二十餘國版權，全球熱議醫療案例，改編電影由克蘿伊・摩蕾茲主演。寫下心理學、神經科學與免疫學研究新頁，國際權威醫學期刊《刺胳針》（The Lancet）：「精彩懸疑，讓人一口氣讀到最後一頁才罷休。極力推薦。」************「完全變了個人是什麼感覺？」起先，卡哈蘭只覺得左手臂不時隱隱刺痛，懷疑遭到蟲咬，