Archive for 2016
Mother With Migraine Helped By Family by Science Source
Mother With Migraine Helped By Family by Science Source Hide the light and shush! My mom suffered intensely from migraine when I was a child. I wish I’d been more considerate 🙁
Mental states influencing physical states wasn’t always interpreted as malingering
Wolff’s migraine personality was also informed by a burgeoning psychodynamic literature that viewed bodies as “systems of psychobiological adaptations.” Using this framework, migraine could be understood to be a protective device that provided a way for the body to withdraw from stressful situations. In fact, migraine was thought to be an especially useful adaptation for […]
Patterns
Patterns The visions produced by mescal and other hallucinogens would usually progress from these elementary forms of hallucination to elaborate visions of a much more personal and sometimes mystical sort (including scenes of people, animals, and landscapes). But Klüver remarked that the lower-level, geometric hallucinations that preceded these were identical to those found in a […]
Clavus hystericus
Clavus hystericus, sometimes called “hysterical headache,” is the clearest example of a gendered diagnostic category in this time period. In his Treatises on the Diseases of the Nervous System, James Ross describes hysterical headache as a variation of hysteria: “Hysterical Headache is met with in females, and is generally accompanied by other symptoms of hysteria. […]
Migraine Art
Migraine Art Gallery of paintings by Olea Nova depicting migraine. She is not a migraine sufferer herself, but worked from descriptions of migraine from patients and medical practitioners.
John Symonds’s 1848 lecture about the relationship between migraine and nervous temperament shared these gender and class assumptions. But he added a new dimension: “Such persons may also feel pains which have taken their origin from mere ideas.” And, thus, Symonds became the first—but certainly not the last—headache doctor to suggest in print that head […]
Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from Within: Klaus Podoll, Derek Robinson, Oliver Sacks
Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from Within: Klaus Podoll, Derek Robinson, Oliver Sacks Want. You can see some of the fascinating art with the “Look Inside” thing on Amazon. Also looks like some interesting writing about aura. I’m especially interested in the parts about Hildegard von Bingen.