TES Bonus Episode: The Awakening: When lupus looks like mental illness

In this episode of The Expert Series, Dr. Anca Askanase,
professor of medicine, the founder and director of Lupus Center
and director of Rheumatology Clinical Trials at the Division of
Rheumatology of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in
New York City, will be sharing about her role in the successful
treatment of a catatonic woman who awakened after 20 years.





Read the article on April’s case and others on the Washington
Post,


How autoimmune disease can attack the brain, cause psychiatric
symptoms





Lupus resources:


Coping with the cognitive symptoms of lupus

What is inflammation?

How lupus affects the body