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Migraine, revised and expanded

✍ Scribed by Oliver Sacks

Publisher
Picador
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Leaves
370
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This revised edition of Oliver Sacks's book is considerably expanded with additional case histories, new findings and practical information on treatment. In a new chapter, illustrated with startling colour paintings by migraine patients, Dr Sacks discusses similiarities among the visual hallucinations, or auras, that often precede a migraine and those that are induced by hallucinogenic drugs or deliria. Drawing on recent advances in chaos theory and neural stimulation, he describes these "hallucinatory constants" and what they reveal about the working of the brain. This is a comprehensive view of one of mankind's complex disorders.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 9
Illustrations......Page 15
Preface to the Revised (1992) Edition......Page 16
Preface to the Original (1970) Edition......Page 19
Acknowledgments......Page 20
Foreword......Page 23
Historical Introduction......Page 27
Part I: The Experience of Migraine......Page 34
Introduction......Page 37
1. Common Migraine......Page 38
2. Migraine Equivalents......Page 60
3. Migraine Aura and Classical Migraine......Page 77
4. Migrainous Neuralgia ("Cluster Headache") - Hemiplegic Migraine - Ophthalmoplegic Migraine - Pseudo-Migraine......Page 125
5. The Structure of Migraine......Page 135
Part II: The Occurrence of Migraine......Page 140
Introduction......Page 143
6. The Predisposition to Migraine......Page 144
7. Periodic and Paroxysmal Migraines......Page 159
8. Circumstantial Migraine......Page 166
9. Situational Migraine......Page 198
Part III: The Basis of Migraine......Page 206
Introduction......Page 209
10. Physioiogicai Mechanisms of Migraine......Page 212
11. The Physiological Organisation of Migraines......Page 227
12. Biological Approaches to Migraine......Page 239
13. Psychological Approaches to Migraine......Page 245
Part IV: Therapeutic Approaches to Migraine......Page 261
Introduction......Page 263
14. General Measures in the Management of Migraine......Page 264
15. Specific Measures During and Between Alttacks......Page 271
16. Recent Advances in the Treatment of Migraine......Page 290
Part Y: Migraine as a Universal......Page 304
Appendix I: The Visions of Hildegard......Page 332
Appendix II: Cardan's Visions (1570)......Page 335
Appendix III: Remedies Advised by Willis (1672), Heberden (1801) and Gowers (1892)......Page 337
Glossary of Case-Histories......Page 340
Glossary of Terms......Page 344
Bibliography......Page 352
Index......Page 360

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