Multi-color image of whole brain for brain imaging research. This image was created in 2009 using a computer image processing program (called SUMA), which is used to make sense of data generated by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). (National Institute of Mental Health via Bay City News) Credit: National Institute of Mental Health via Bay City News

Elizabeth Brown’s bedroom holds a trove of evidence of her fight to save herself.

Preserved among the Twilight novels, the posters of Korean pop singers and cameras she used for her budding journalism career are clues to the Santa Rosa teenager’s agonizing struggle with the mental illness that claimed her life last year.

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