MIGRAINE

The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and Musicophilia.

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.