Migraine

by OliverSacks (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $4.48

  Investigation and understanding of the patient's own experiences are the central issues in Dr Oliver Sacks' work. This book looks at migraine headaches and how they can be analyzed and treated and is designed to be of interest to general readers as well as to health professionals. The author also wrote A Leg to Stand on , The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Seeing Voices .

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $4.34

  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.