{"product_id":"migraine-art-isbn-9781556436727","title":"Migraine Art","description":"\u003ci\u003eMigraine Art\u003c\/i\u003e includes more than 300 powerful illustrations and paintings created by migraine sufferers from around the world. It provides a thoroughly unique window into the subjective world of the migraine sufferer. The idea of collecting migraine art started with 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 includes hundreds of these submissions as well as detailed descriptions of different types of migraine visual phenomena. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCovering such topics as migraine signs, triggers, and treatments, as well as types of visual hallucinations and somatic sensations and experiences, the book offers a comprehensive view of the migraine experience. Each category of visual disturbance is accompanied by related artwork. A description of migraine visual experiences of famous historical figures, such as Blaise Pascal and Lewis Carroll, provide historical background on the topic. The book also includes a history of four Migraine Art competitions and information about the Migraine Art collection.“It has taken more than a decade and a half, but \u003ci\u003eMigraine Art: The Migraine Experience  from Within\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e—Foreword by Oliver Sacks\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"One of  the most fascinating under-the-radar art books of recent times is North Atlantic’s  Migraine Art, a book based on a contest held in Germany which asked people to illustrate  what a migraine felt like. The results of the contest were incredible: crazy nightscapes,  lightening bolts through the eyes, parts of heads missing…\"\u003cbr\u003e—RandomHouseLibrary.com\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“First, \u003ci\u003eMigraine Art\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e—Andrew  Levy, author of \u003ci\u003eA Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine \u003c\/i\u003eDiary\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This magnum opus from Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson is a key to migraine research that has been a long time coming. If you want to understand your own symptoms better, and those of others, there are few books that will offer more insight.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMigraine and Headache News\u003c\/i\u003eKlaus Podoll, MD, is a senior physician at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University Hospital Aachen at RWTH Aachen University. He has written and coauthored numerous medical articles, book chapters, and two books on Migraine Art. Coeditor in chief of the \u003ci\u003eMigraine Aura Foundation \u003c\/i\u003eWeb site, his current scientific interests focus on the neuropsychology and neuroesthetics of\u003cbr\u003emigraine auras, including the rare variety of persistent aura.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDerek Robinson founded the Migraine Art concept in 1973. Between 1980 and 1987 he organized four national Migraine Art competitions sponsored by the Migraine Action Association (formerly known as the British Migraine Association) and Boehringer Ingelheim UK Limited. Until his death in 2001 he was the curator of the Migraine Art collection. He was also the coauthor of numerous medical articles and one book on Migraine Art.","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44867120955621,"sku":"NP9781556436727","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781556436727.jpg?v=1767732679","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/migraine-art-isbn-9781556436727","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}