The Headache

The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction-and a Search for Relief

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<p><strong>"Required reading for anyone with a head."—Mary Roach, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Stiff </em>and <em>Fuzz</em></strong></p><p><strong>"[<em>The Headache</em>] weaves together history, biology, a survey of current research, testimony from patients, and an agonizing account of Zeller’s own suffering. . . If there’s a lesson here, it’s that pain resists mastery, but understanding, however incomplete, can offer its own form of relief."—<em>New Yorker</em></strong></p><p>From blinding migraines to severe headache disorders known as “clusters,” chronic head pain affects 40% of the population, many of them suffering in silence. Finally, <em>The Headache</em> reveals the science behind a group of disorders that is as much a curse as a cultural punchline, and leads to key insights into the nature of pain itself.</p><p>Guided by his own decades-long struggle with cluster headaches, veteran science journalist Tom Zeller Jr.’s journey into headache science is at once intimate and panoramic. He visits cutting-edge clinics; interviews dozens of doctors, neurologists, and fellow headache patients; participates in clinical trials for multi-million-dollar new medicines; and even experiments with psilocybin in search of relief.</p><p>Along the way, Zeller traces the longer arc of mystery around headaches, from prehistoric skull surgery to Virginia Woolf’s assertion that, in the throes of a migraine, “language runs dry,” to reveal how headaches became one of the most under-researched afflictions in medicine—and how that is slowly starting to change.</p><p>With warmth, wit, and infectious curiosity, Zeller’s search for the origins of his own headaches becomes a journey into the inner workings of the human nervous system, and an invaluable witness to one of the most maligned conditions known to medicine.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780358507758

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

231 x 161 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. USA