Patients should not need advanced medical education to understand their syndrome. Here we seek to provide clear and helpful information about migraine and its treatment to help you better understand this syndrome, its treatments, and the resources available to patients coping with this condition.
In popular culture, a migraine is a really bad headache. In truth, migraine isn't really a headache syndrome at all. Migraine is actually a sensory processing disorder.
Many people share the most common questions and concerns about migraine. Here we try to answer some of the most common questions people have about migraine and their migraine-related experiences.
If our culture focused as much on sleep as our myths suggest it should, I probably wouldn’t have any patients. Out of all of the various treatments in psychiatry and neurology, from diet and exercise to supplements and medications, improving sleep is probably the most universal and consistent treatment available to patients, and one of the hardest.
One of the most vital treatments in medicine is sleep regulation, and one of the most neglected components of sleep management is light management. Our brains evolved with many mechanisms to keep us highly functional during the day. At night, our brains don’t stop but they work even harder.
