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 |
Chapter | 12 |
toms and Abnormal BowelAction Lethargy | 19 |
Casehistories of migraine in relation to con 4749 | 47 |
Visual hallucinations in migraine 5762 | 57 |
The stages of mosaic vision | 74 |
Migrainous Neuralgia Cluster | 99 |
Introductory Comments | 203 |
iour | 205 |
Necessity of Considering Migraines as Experiences to which | 223 |
Introduction | 229 |
Chapter 15 | 241 |
cebos | 250 |
Chapter 17 | 273 |
Geometrical form constant | 283 |
Chapter 5 | 109 |
The configuration of migraine in relation to | 112 |
Introduction | 117 |
Relation to Other Disorders Migraine in Relation | 128 |
Chapter 8 | 139 |
Chapter 9 | 160 |
Introduction | 175 |
Chapter II | 186 |
The Physiological Organisation | 193 |
Scheme of hypothetical migraine process | 197 |
tion | 292 |
Appendix I | 299 |
Varieties of migraine hallucination repre | 300 |
Glossary of CaseHistories | 307 |
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