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