A Comprehensive Resource for Migraine Sufferers With a Level of Detail to Satisfy Medical Professionals
This second edition of Migraine has an extensive review of the literature on important migraine subjects such as:
- Migraine without aura and migraine with aura
- Cluster headache and medication overuse headache
- Other types including menstrual migraine, confusional migraine, and footballer's migraine
- A history of migraine discussing many famous sufferers such as Freud, Darwin, and Nietzsche
The book has several teaching-type patient dialogues between a patient and a doctor in the clinical chapters on migraine that are instructive for patients, medical students, and neurology residents. It has an up-to-date review of current therapy of migraine, discussing acute therapy with the triptans, CGRP drugs for acute and preventive therapy, a new DHE delivery system, and non-drug treatments such as a vagal nerve stimulator, and trigeminal nerve stimulator.
It is said that people who have migraine like to read about migraine. So, find a comfortable chair, put your feet up, and enjoy Migraine.