Understanding Your Migraines

Dr. Morris Levin serves as chief of the Division of Headache Medicine and director of the Headache Center at UCSF Medical Center. He specializes in the management of all forms of facial pain and headache, including migraine, cluster headache, cervicogenic headache (neck-related headaches) and post-traumatic headaches. His research interests include cervicogenic headache, post-concussive headache, diagnosis in headaches, and medical education in neurology. Dr. Levin earned an undergraduate degree at Stanford University and his medical degree at Chicago Medical School. Subsequently, he completed a residency in neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, followed by subspecialty training at the Montefiore Hospital Headache Unit and Michigan Head-Pain and Neurological Institute. He is board certified in neurology and pain medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.Dr. Thomas N. Ward grew up in Portsmouth, NH where he attended the public school system. He graduated from Dartmouth College cum laude in 1975 and from Dartmouth Medical School with honors in 1980. He was elected a member of AOA. He was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine at Albany Medical Center from 1980-1982 then a resident in Neurology from 1982-1985 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Subsequently he practiced Neurology at Laconia Clinic in Laconia, NH until returning to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 1989 where he founded their headache clinic. He retired from DHMC in June 2016.Dr. Ward is a Fellow of the American Headache Society and of the American Academy of Neurology as well as the American Neurological Association. He is Treasurer of the Headache Cooperative of New England and certified in the subspecialty of Headache Medicine by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. He was Professor of Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

This book is for patients, but alas I cannot think of a clinician or health care professional doing headache neurology who would not benefit from reading it and having it on hand or in a pocket. Bookstores have a scarcity of good patient books, and this one should be popular and retain its education value for years... So I would recommend it and say take it with you to your doctor, and if you are a headache doctor then take it with you to your office.

• Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction to Migraines Chapter 2 What Kind of Headache Do I Have?Chapter 3 Do I Have Migraine?Chapter 4 The Nature of MigraineChapter 5 The Impact of Migraine - And What Are the Goals in Managing Them?Chapter 6 The Best Medical Treatments to Relieve a Migraine HeadacheChapter 7 Non-Medicinal Ways to Relieve Migraine PainChapter 8 Preventing Migraine: Medical ChoicesChapter 9 Non-Medicinal and Alternative Approaches to Preventing MigrainesChapter 10 Migraines in Children and AdolescentsChapter 11 Migraines During Pregnancy and Breast-FeedingChapter 12 Frequent Migraines - How Chronic Migraine Differs from Episodic MigraineChapter 13 Newer and Experimental Treatments of Migraine and Other HeadachesChapter 14 The Usual Headache (Tension-Type Headache)Chapter 15 Unusual Headaches: Cluster Headache, Other "Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias", and New Daily Persistent HeadacheChapter 16 Head Injuries and HeadachesChapter 17 How to Communicate with Your Medical TeamChapter 18 Migraine Resources