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Lupus

Lupus

The Great Pretender


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Running Time
58 Min.

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This week on The Infinite Mind, a woman travels from doctor to doctor complaining of aches and pains, confusion and depression, and is told repeatedly that there’s nothing wrong with her. But there’s something seriously wrong. It’s Lupus, an autoimmune disorder that attacks the body’s soft tissue and can dramatically affect the brain and behavior as well. Guest host Dr. Fred Goodwin explores a disease known as “The Great Pretender,” a disease with an array of baffling symptoms that make accurate and timely diagnosis difficult. Lupus is one of many autoimmune disorders including Multiple Sclerosis and Rheumatoid arthritis which affect more than 8.5 million people in the United States. Dr. Goodwin’s guests include Amy Butler Greenfield, a Massachusetts-based writer with Lupus, and Virginia Ladd, president of the Autoimmune Disease Association. Lupus expert Dr. Daniel Wallace discusses the effects of Lupus on the brain and behavior as well as potential new therapies. We hear from actress Kellie Martin whose younger sister, Heather, died in 1998 of complications from Lupus. We also speak with Gail Bruner and Dr. Robert Scofield of the National Native American Lupus Project, about the impact that Lupus has on Native Americans and John Hunter Bear Gray, a Native American civil rights activist who is living with Lupus. Dr. Ann Traynor of the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center talks about the exciting results from stem cell transplants in people with severe Lupus symptoms. And commentary from Eugenie Seifer Olson, a Boston- based writer whose real-life experiences with Lupus turn up in the pages of her novel, The Pajama Game.

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