"Finally, a book that takes years of clinical experience and decades of scientific discoveries and boils them down into simple, easy-to-understand language, giving patients insight they can use to manage their headaches successfully. Understanding Your Migraine gives hope to the most challenging-to-treat headache sufferers. A true testimony to the power of academic medicine, this book reflects the many thousands of hours the authors spent listening to their patients, addressing their concerns, taking endless notes, making symptom-based diagnoses, practicing evidence-based medicine, treating the patients themselves rather than their lab tests and images, ensuring the benefits of treatments, not blaming the patient when treatments fail, and most importantly, taking the time to educate patients about their illnesses."--Rami Burstein, PhD, John Hedley-Whyte Professor of Anaesthesia and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA "Understanding your migraine, written by 2 pre-eminent thought leaders in the headache field, is a comprehensive look at migraine and other related disorders. Each of the chapters begins with a case history to introduce a topic and as the information is delivered the authors refer to the case to drive home their point. While we headache medicine specialists discuss these issues with our patients not all clinicians have the time or the expertise required. This book is useful in that it reinforces what we clinicians tell our patients but also provides education on topics that may not have not been broached during the visit." --Lawrence C.

Newman, MD, Director, The Headache Institute, Mount Sinai St. Luke's, New York, NY "Migraine is a common, disabling, and often misunderstood disease. For those contending with migraine, it is a challenge to find current and reliable information on what migraine is, and what it isn't, and what measures will bring it under control. Understanding Your Migraines now provides welcome and authoritative guidance from two renowned migraine doctors and researchers. Written in an engaging and clear style, which is punctuated by illustrative patient vignettes, Professors Levin and Ward logically guide the reader to understand the process of diagnosing migraine and the multiple approaches to effective migraine therapy." --Robert E. Shapiro, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurological Sciences, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.