Book description
'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human
experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a
remarkable achievement' Sunday Telegraph Migraine is an age-old - the
first recorded instances date back over two thousand years - and often
debilitating condition, affecting a 'substantial minority' of the
population across the globe. In this book, Oliver Sacks offers at once a
medical account of its occurrence and management; an exploration of its
physical, physiological, and psychological underpinnings and
consequences; and a meditation on the nature and experience of health
and illness. 'It delves into the workings of the brain with brilliant
complexity, and should be required reading for migraine sufferers or
those with an intellectual bent' Cosmopolitan 'Migraine is full of those
wondrous insights that have made Oliver Sacks the most accessible and at
the same time the most magisterial of doctors' Anita Brookner, Spectator
'Written with Sacks's customary insight and grace, no book has helped me
understand more about the mind-body connection' Hilary Mantel, Mail on
Sunday
Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten previous books,
including most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York
City, where he is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia
University. He is the first, and only, Columbia University Artist, and
is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was
appointed Commander of the British Empire.
