Publisher's Synopsis
Millions of people from around the world suffer from migraines, and yet it remains an illness so unpredictable and variable in its symptoms and physiology that it constitutes a serious challenge for the medical profession. For centuries it has been confused with madness or epilepsy, it has been labelled as psychosomatic, and some hallucinations have even been confused with mystical visions. In Oliver Sacks first book, he proposes his theory that migraines have a triple origin: psychological, physiological and biological, and neither in their detection nor in their treatment can any of these factors can be ignored.
