Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from within: The Migraine Experience from Within (Hardcover)

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"It has taken more than a decade and a half, but "Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from Within" has been well worth the wait for all of us with an interest in visual phenomena and the brain.... [It] stands as the definitive work of its kind--an incomparable collection of material on the visual and other phenomena of migraine, and, by implication, on the brain processes which underlie these."
--Foreword by Oliver Sacks
"First, "Migraine Art" is, literally, a beautiful book, filled with both fascinating and gorgeous illustrations by migraine artists--adults and children, celebrated and obscure. Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson provide a comprehensive overview of their subject, the symptoms and mechanisms of migraine as translated into "outsider" art by migraine sufferers. But they do something else too; something humane and profound: they show us in remarkable detail how people respond to pain with creativity, and tell us much, too, about the unexplored bonds between science and the humanities, between the hard facts of our bodies, and the labor of our imaginations."
--Andrew Levy, author of "A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary"

Product Description
In their book "Migraine Art", authors Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson provide descriptions of types of migraine visual phenomena, along with art images created by migraine sufferers that detail their visual experiences. The migraine art concept was developed as the rationale for a number of public competitions in the 1980s which encouraged artists, both amateur and professional, to illustrate the pain, the visual disturbances, and the effect migraines had on their lives.The book describes a comprehensive view of the migraine experience and covers such topics as migraine signs, symptoms, triggers, and treatments, as well as types of visual hallucinations and somatic sensations and experiences. Throughout the book are pieces of art created by the migraine sufferers themselves that exemplify each category of visual disturbance. A description of the migraine visual experiences of famous historical figures, such as Blaise Pascal and Lewis Carroll provide a historical background on the topic. The book also includes a history of four Migraine Art competitions and information about the Migraine Art collection.

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