| Publication |
New York, Vintage Books, 1999.
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| Description |
xxiii, 338pYellow and White Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
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.
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| Contents |
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
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| Standard Number |
9780375704062 Pb.
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