Archive for 2016
Work goals
Last week I wanted to work for 4 hours. If I met my goal, I would have obtained a couple Luna albums. I didn’t meet my goal. I did a lot of stuff last week, stuff that needed to get done, stuff related to being sick. But I need to be able to manage day […]
Migraine complicates the relationship between specific disease and legitimation. Migraine has a well-established diagnosis, a subspecialty in medicine that is devoted to its treatment, brain imaging that illustrates a migraine in process, pharmacological interventions, research that links certain forms of migraine to genetic mutations, insurance companies and policy makers that recognize its existence (albeit to […]
Sci-Hub: removing barriers in the way of science
Sci-Hub: removing barriers in the way of science If you want to read a paper I post, but don’t have access through a university or library, I recommend using sci-hub.
Theorists writing about the social construction of illness have argued that legitimacy in medicine is primarily dictated by a reductionist epistemology—that is, in Western societies, diseases are legitimate when real, and “real” refers to symptoms that can be linked to an identifiable, biological pathology. 38 Ideally, the pathology should be “specific,” meaning that the pathology […]
Gastric stasis in migraineurs: etiology, characteristics, and clinical and therapeutic implications.
Gastric stasis in migraineurs: etiology, characteristics, and clinical and therapeutic implications. Migraines can cause your stomach to empty too slowly, making you feel like shit: Gastric stasis, also called gastroparesis (5), is defined as delayed emptying of the stomach in the absence of mechanical obstruction, and its clinical manifestations include nausea, vomiting, bloating, and weight […]
What the Gut Can Teach Us About Migraine.
What the Gut Can Teach Us About Migraine. Nice recent summary of what we know about interactions between the head-brain and the gut-brain in migraine. Touches on why dietary changes help some migraineurs. Take home paragraph: The physiological connection between the gut and the brain as well as the influence on brain function and behavior […]
Although neurobiology offers a biological explanation for migraine, this explanatory framework may have less power to legitimate migraine if it is understood in terms that replicate already existing assumptions about men and women in pain. stakeholders’ best attempts to legitimate migraine are undermined by cultural meanings of headache and migraine that are overlaid with assumptions […]