MigraineIn recent years the bestselling Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat have received great critical acclaim, but Oliver Sacks's readers may remember that he began his medical career working with migraine patients. In this new edition of Migraine, he returns to his first book and enriches it with additional case histories, new findings, and practical information. For centuries physicians and migraineurs have been fascinated by the visual hallucinations, or auras, which often precede a migraine and which are similar to those induced by hallucinogenic drugs or deliria. In a remarkable new chapter, illustrated with startling full-color paintings by migraine sufferers, Dr. Sacks draws on recent advances in chaos theory and neural simulation to describe these "hallucinatory constants" and what they reveal about the working of the brain. Another important addition to the 1992 edition discusses newly developed drug therapies for migraine, as well as alternative, nondrug approaches. Only Oliver Sacks's boundless curiosity and rich imagination could yield such a fresh, comprehensive view of one of humankind's oldest afflictions. |
Contents
Foreword by William Gooddy MD FRCP | 1 |
Introduction | 11 |
xvii | 18 |
Migraine Equivalents | 34 |
II | 35 |
Chapter 3 | 42 |
Classical Migraine | 51 |
Vision of the Heavenly City from Hildegards Scivias | 62 |
Chapter 8 Circumstantial Migraine | 140 |
Fig 9 | 197 |
Introductory Comments | 203 |
Biological Approaches to Migraine | 205 |
Psychological Approaches | 211 |
Introduction | 229 |
Specific Measures During | 238 |
Recent Advances in the Treatment | 256 |
Historical Descriptions of | 65 |
Affect and Mood Disorders of Higher Integrative Func | 85 |
and Distinction from Epilepsies Classical Migraine | 94 |
Migrainous Neuralgia Cluster | 99 |
The Structure of Migraine | 109 |
Symptoms Nasal Symptoms Abdominal Symp | 112 |
Introduction | 117 |
Fig 6 | 127 |
Periodic and Paroxysmal Migraines | 133 |
Chapter 17 | 273 |
The Visions of Hildegard | 299 |
Glossary of CaseHistories | 307 |
74 | 310 |
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