ID | 016821 |
Call Number | 616.857/SAC |
Title Proper | Migraine |
Language | ENG |
Author | Sacks, Oliver |
Publication | New York, Vintage Books, 1999. |
Description | xxiii, 338p Yellow and White Spine |
Note | Migraine is an age-old - the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years,- and often debilitating condition, affecting a 'substantial minority' of the population across the globe. In this book, Oliver Sacks offers at once a medical account of its occurrence and management; an exploration of its physical, physiological, and psychological underpinnings and consequences; and a meditation on the nature and experience of health and illness. |
Note | Migraine equivalents Migraine aura and classical migraine Migrainous neuralgia ("cluster headache"), hemiplegic migraine, ophthalmoplegic migraine, pseudo-migraine The structure of migraine The predisposition to migraine Periodic and paroxysmal migraines Circumstantial migraine Situational migraine Physiological mechanisms of migraine The physiological organisation of migraines Biological approaches to migraine Psychological approaches to migraine General measures in the management of migraine Specific measures during and between attacks Recent advances in the treatment of migraine Migraine aura and hallucinatory constants / with Ralph M. Siegel |
Standard Number | 9780375704062 |
Price. Qualification | $15.95(Pb) |
Classification Number | 616.857 |
Key Words | IBDP ; TOK ; Migraine |