Najjar used this to help diagnose Cahalan and start her road to recovery. Rather than drawing the clock face normally, the disease caused Cahalan to draw all of the numbers 1 through 12 on the right face of the clock, because the right side of her brain, which regulates the left side of the body, was inflamed. It describes her symptoms before her disease, and her time through it. Najjar diagnosed Cahalan using a test that involved her drawing a clock, a test normally given to people suspected of having dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Brain on Fire is a memoir about Susannah Cahalans time though madness. Souhel Najjar, began to suspect that Cahalan was suffering from an autoimmune disease. Eventually several physicians, including Dr. Brain on Fire 2016 Maturity Rating: 13+ 1h 29m Dramas Stricken with seizures, psychosis and memory loss, a young New York Post reporter visits doctor after doctor in search of an elusive diagnosis. Her eventual diagnosis is made more difficult by various physicians misdiagnosing her with several theories such as "partying too much" and schizoaffective disorder. She wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the events of the previous month, during which time she would have violent episodes and delusions.
The book narrates Cahalan's issues with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and the process by which she was diagnosed with this form of encephalitis. In pushing the boundaries of memoir through the use of multiple I narrative voices, Brain on Fire is a valuable teaching tool to aspiring memoirists who want.
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