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    The Migraine Brain: Your Breakthrough Guide to Fewer Headaches, Better Health
    The Migraine Brain: Your Breakthrough Guide to Fewer Headaches, Better Health
    The Migraine Brain: Your Breakthrough Guide to Fewer Headaches, Better Health
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    The Migraine Brain: Your Breakthrough Guide to Fewer Headaches, Better Health

    By Carolyn Bernstein and Elaine McArdle

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    A comprehensive book that explains how to cope with migraines by an esteemed neurologist.

    You know that your migraine isn't just a headache. But you may not know that migraine actually is a neurological disease. Affecting one in five women, one in twenty men, and one in twenty children, it's a debilitating, complex, and chronic condition that manifests in a combination of symptoms that can include excruciating head pain as well as other distinctive physical and emotional effects. Yet it's also a disease that you can get control of, improve, and manage, as Dr. Carolyn Bernstein has discovered in her seventeen years as a Harvard Medical School faculty member and practicing neurologist.

    Praised for her excellence and compassion, the founder of the Women's Headache Center near Boston, and a migraine sufferer herself, Dr. Bernstein has helped hundreds of her patients get better. Now, with The Migraine Brain, the most comprehensive, up-to-the-minute book on migraines ever written, you will be able to do the same—reduce the frequency and intensity of your migraines, learn how to prevent and curtail them and how to recover from them more quickly, and mitigate migraine's effects on every aspect of your life: in the workplace and at home and during sex and travel. Every migraine is different because everyone who gets a migraine has a distinctive “Migraine Brain” with its own sensitivities and triggers. That's why it's so important for you to develop a personalized wellness plan to radically reduce the number and severity of your migraines.

    Dr. Bernstein also explains why migraines happen, why they are so often misdiagnosed, and why so few people get the right treatment for them. She reveals the latest research that shows that Migraine Brains share a hypersensitivity to stimuli—the Migraine Brain can actually look different from others on a brain scan—and is more likely to experience a cascade of neurological reactions that give rise to the common clusters of migraine symptoms. This breakthrough medical knowledge makes treatment and recovery possible with new migraine-specific drugs as well as with complementary treatments such as yoga, biofeedback, and an exercise regimen.

    With the extraordinarily thorough recommendations of The Migraine Brain in your hands, you will be fully equipped with all the latest information you need to understand migraines and to help your family and co-workers understand that migraine isn't just a headache: it's a serious, yet treatable disease.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateSep 16, 2008
    ISBN9781416580331
    The Migraine Brain: Your Breakthrough Guide to Fewer Headaches, Better Health
    Author

    Carolyn Bernstein

    Carolyn Bernstein,M.D., is an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a staff neurologist at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2006, Dr. Bernstein opened her own headache clinic for women, the Women's Headache Center at Cambridge Health Alliance.

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    • 3/5
      An excellent resource for those who suffer from migraines and those interested in the impacts of the disease. It is not an especially well-written book, or scientific in nature, but a practical guide for those who want anecdotal stories, vindication that they are not alone, and encouragement to seek medical treatment.
    • 4/5
      This is easily the best migraine book I've ever read. It's a fantastic resource and chock full of information.

      The writing is dry; it's mostly information about migraines and/or examples of cases that the writer (an MD from Harvard who is a migraineur who runs has her own headache clinic) has dealt with in her clinic. The dry writing might turn some people off, but if you're like me and have read a lot of journal articles or other non-fiction writing, it shouldn't be a problem.

      There are a number of forms and worksheets to help anyone discover symptoms, patterns, and triggers for their migraines, and also assess the severity (hopefully to be able to see what treatments are working). There is a lot of information to help deal with the issue holistically, it's not just about avoiding chocolate, wine, and taking medication. She comes at the problem from several angles, and mentions alternative treatments whether or not she actually agrees with them.

      The reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is because I felt some of the information wasn't quite complete. I've taken most of the medications (prophylactic and treatment mentioned), so when she says "if you can't take X, you may be able to take Y, check chapter 9" and Chapter 9 doesn't address the difference between those drugs, I find it a problem. Also, she mentions that a "doctor who immediately prescribes Z is probably not a good doctor, go see ch 9" and again doesn't address that, another problem (is it because Z is dangerous, or because Doctor isn't checking out any of those other meds? what?).

      So overall, amazing. Whether or not I believe the information about the pharmaceuticals in use is complete, it's still pretty good and the rest of the book is excellent, giving plenty of tools for helping deal with migraines.
    • 2/5
      Recommended by Coopers (Joanne). This book is written by a Harvard Medical School faculty member and practicing neurologist. The author is very good at outlining possible causes and research in this fieldI suffer from severe headaches and thus thought the book could offer some suggestions. Alas, because I've dealt with this condition for a long time, most of the book contained information I already know.However, I recommend this book to people who are new to this nasty condition and need to learn the triggers, the phases of headaches, and the medications available.
    • 5/5
      I am a migraine sufferer, although thankfully mine are not that severe. This is the first migraine book I have read, and I know there are a lot of them out there. I found this book readable and informative- after following some of the suggestions in the book (keeping a headache diary was especially helpful), I have pinpointed the causes of my migraines and taken successful steps to reduce their number and severity.If you are interested in learning about and taking control of your migraines, I highly recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      This book, while written by a Dr., is very readable and helpful in understanding migraines and how to take charge of their effect on your life. There are many helpful suggestions for trying to prevent them as well as how to cope with them.

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