Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

the information to come while reviewing what has been covered already so as to nicely integrate the goal of the book in an informative and educational way. Overall, the book effectively presents the scientific literature in combination with real-life stories, leaving the reader eager to integrate this newfound knowledge to better the lives of those suffering from cancer and its related diseases.

To Hell and Back Review: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

The Centre Cannot Hold (My Journey Through Madness)

If you walk into any branch of Waterstones, near the biography section there is a section called “Lost Lives”. This is the result of the increasing numbers of memoirs dealing with various types of abuse in childhood and various degrees of subsequent transcendence. The genre has also less charitably been dubbed “Misery Lit”, and described as “the book world’s biggest boom sector.” I am happy to ...

Madness

here are clouds in the painting, of course. Almost any one of us would have included those clouds, thick with electricity and rainwater. And there is the wheat field, smudged out like an empty palm, orange beneath the storm-stricken sun. Surely, many of us would have insisted on the wheat as well. Through the middle of the wheat, a rutted road slices to the horizon and disappears beneath the cl...

Don't hurt my brain … it's my second favorite organ.

F or patients and health care providers alike, there is no more dreaded illness than stroke, and with good reason. Stroke remains the third leading cause of death in the US and is the most common cause of death as a result of a neurologic disorder. It is estimated that there are more than 700,000 stroke victims per year in this country. Approximately one third of these will die, and one third w...