Migraine: The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Managing Severe Headaches

by Britt Talley Daniel

Migraine is an enormous health problem, the most common medical condition for women. Most books on headache have short chapters on migraine but this is a comprehensive textbook written from an evidence based medical perspective. Teaching type patient dialogues are included for the clinical chapters on migraine along with an up to date review of current therapy.

2 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 25, 2010

About the author

Britt Talley Daniel MD is a retired neurologist from Dallas, Texas. Trained in medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and in neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Dr. Daniel served his country as a staff neurologist LCDR, USNR at Balboa Hospital in San Diego, California at the end of the Vietnam conflict. After this he was on the senior staff as a neurologist at Scott and White Clinic in Temple, Texas and an Associate Professor of Neurology at Texas A&M University Medical School. Moving to Dallas to start a private practice, Dr. Daniel taught at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School as a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology.
Married and with 5 grown children, Dr. Daniel is a lifelong folksinger and guitar picker. He is also the author of 5 medical textbooks: Migraine, published in print with AuthorHouse and as a second edition as an eBook and print book with Amazon and Create Space, Transient Global Amnesia, Volume 1 of the Mini Neurology Series: Migraine, Volume 2: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Volume 3: Panic Disorder, Volume 4: Essential Tremor.
He has written a transgenerational novel, published in print and eBook with Amazon about a medical family from England who relocates to America aboard the haunted Titanic, entitled: Titanic: Answer from the Deep. He has also published the first of several stories about a mystery solving physician entitled: And If Thine Eye Offend Thee, The Case of the Organic Chemist, and The Spanish Flu 1918 with Amazon.

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Migraine Blog: www.doctormigraine.com

Reviews

[Pat Loughery · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a thick, well researched bookshelf manual, especially helpful for the medical literature reviews of various migraine types.

The author's perspective is a bit old-school, though up to date. He's interested only in medical documentation (and not alternative medicine). His chapter intros are stories of a patient's interaction with an MD, and those stories are a bit forced. But it's a good reference, especially good at the literature reviews for the various flavors of migraine.

The Kindle version is poorly formatted with bad chapter and section markers that are easy to miss.

[Martha van Zyl · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was helpful, but also very annoying. Most of chapter six - The History of Migraine - was an waste of time with a useless reference to historical figures who suffered from migraine, highlighting times in their lives they were afflicted, but also writing that has no relevance to the condition or the treatment thereof. It digressed horridly and frustrated me immensely.