Migraine by Oliver Sacks

Migraine by Oliver Sacks

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This revised edition of Oliver Sack's book is considerably expanded with additional case histories, new findings and practical information on treatment. A new chapter illustrates colour paintings by migraine patients, and Sacks discusses visual hallucinations or auras.

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Migraine by Oliver Sacks

This revised edition of Oliver Sack's book is considerably expanded with additional case histories, new findings and practical information on treatment. A new chapter illustrates colour paintings by migraine patients, and Sacks discusses visual hallucinations or auras.
Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings. Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.
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ISBN 13 9780330331869
ISBN 10 0330331868
Title Migraine
Author Oliver Sacks
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 1995-01-27
Number of pages 368
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.