Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder

摘要: In 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. this, latest edition of "Migraine," returns to first book enriches it additional case histories, new findings, practical information on treatment. To define "migraine, " suggests Sacks, one must embrace dizzying variety experiences its sufferers. For some, affliction features headache monumental proportions. others, there is no pain at all. Some attacks are triggered by weather, some intense light. Still others consist light -- hallucinatory displays dazzling loops, stars, geometrics. "Migraine" brilliant examination debilitating ailment profound implications neurological illness. Synthesizing patients' histories 2,000 human research into problem, casts as exemplar our psychological transparency, complex biological response external factors. Here classic meditation nature health malady, unity mind body. Here, too, discovery how shows us, through displays, elemental activity cerebral cortex potentially, self-organizing patterns Nature itself. Enormously compelling, compassionate, profound, Migraine offers comfort sufferers insight