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Your Breakthrough Guide To Fewer Headaches, Better Health
Free Press
September 2008
On Sale: September 16, 2008
368 pages ISBN: 1416547681 EAN: 9781416547686 Hardcover
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Self-Help | Non-Fiction
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.
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