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” Five Stars! essential guide for anyone who suffers from headaches, and those who don’t.” — About.com…an excellent guide for sufferers seeking better care or more information. — The Bookwatch, June 2004

Headache is the most common complaint for which people see neurologists and the seventh most common reason they visit their primary care doctors. It is the third most common cause of missed work, and can seriously undermine quality of life if no (more…)

In the United States, eighteen percent of women, six percent of men, and four percent of children suffer from migraine headaches. All races are affected, although, for reasons which are unknown, whites are more likely than African Americans to be afflicted with the condition, and Asian Americans are least often migraine sufferers. Migraine is an inherited condition-many families can trace it back for generations-and it has enormous economic and social consequences, both to indi (more…)Wordpress Autoblog Software

From The Washington Post

From The Washington Post’s Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Christine Montross It’s no easy business to write about pain. Memoirs of illness and injury too frequently end up either as proud testimonies of endurance or self-indulgent tomes. Andrew Levy’s beautiful memoir, “A Brain Wider Than the Sky,” is welcome relief. A professor of English at Butler University, Levy is also an accomplished writer, who here turns his exacting gaze inward: He (more…)

An estimated 30 million American adults and 1 million children suffer from migraine headaches. Now 50 Ways to Control Migraines offers you welcome relief with 50 concrete strategies for understanding, preventing, and managing the pain of this chronic disease. Handy and comprehensive, this volume covers everything from environmental, psychological, hormonal, and dietary factors to treatment options, both traditional and alternative.

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“It has taken more than a decade and a half, but Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from Within has been well worth the wait for all of us with an interest in visual phenomena and the brain…. stands as the definitive work of its kind—an incomparable collection of material on the visual and other phenomena of migraine, and, by implication, on the brain processes which underlie these.”—Foreword by Oliver Sacks”One of the most fascinating under-the-radar art (more…)

Are You Ready to Get Your Life Back–And Be Permanently Free From the Crippling Pain of Migraines? How to Forever Banish the Curse of Migraines–Using a Totally Effective, Safe, Clinically-Proven Yet Drug-Free Medical Breakthrough No more potentially destructive (and expensive) drugs! The Migraine Cure is all natural and releases you from the tyranny of powerful medications–forever. No need to change your diet! The Migraine Cure requires no dietary changes or r (more…)

From Publishers Weekly

Bernstein, a neurologist who suffered her first migraines in her 20s, teaches at Harvard Medical School and is on staff at the Cambridge Health Alliance, where she founded the Women’s Headache Center. With journalist McArdle, she presents a clear and comprehensive analysis of the migraine brain. Noting that there are about 30 million migraine sufferers in the U.S., Bernstein reveals that migraine is a complex neurological disease that affects the central ne (more…)

From Publishers Weekly

Headache specialist Seymour Diamond, with Mary A. Franklin, offers advice and encouragement in Conquering Your Migraine: The Essential Guide to Understanding and Treating Migraines for All Sufferers and Their Families. Collaborators on Coping with Your Headaches and colleagues at the Diamond Headache Clinic, they here examine the most debilitating form. Their manual identifies and discusses the various types of migraines, offers self-help measures and alter (more…)

This book offers a revolutionary way to manage and prevent migraine and otherheadaches through diet. Readers will learn which foods can trigger headaches, how to determine which ones affect them, and how to prepare meals that reduceone’s chances of getting a migraine.

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In this addition to the “Living Well” series, patient advocate Robert provides current information on headaches and migraine disease, treatments, personal stories and coping techniques. The author, a longtime migraineur, stresses that although many migraine sufferers are unaware of treatment options, at least 95 percent of sufferers can benefit from preventive regimens once correctly diagnosed. Migraines, Robert explains, are not simply bad headaches, but a (more…)