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

About the Author

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. He is also certified in Pain Medicine by the American Board of Pain Medicine and holds board certification in Headache Medicine from the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties.

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. He is the Editor in Chief of the journal Headache: the journal of head and face pain.

Reviews

"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." --
R. Allan Purdy MD, FAHS, Headache
"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 Migraines gives hope to the most challenging-to-treat headache sufferers." -- Rami Burstein, PhD, John Hedley-Whyte Professor of Anaesthesia and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center
"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
"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." -- Robert E. Shapiro, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurological Sciences, Larner College
of Medicine, University of Vermont