The Mini Neurology Series, Volume 1: Migraine

A concise neurologist’s guide to understanding migraine, preventing attacks, and treating them effectively.

Migraine is much more than a headache. It is an inherited neurological disorder involving the brain and trigeminal system, producing recurring attacks that may include headache, nausea, sensitivity to light and sound, and, in some patients, neurological aura.

In this concise 46-page book, neurologist and longtime headache specialist Britt Talley Daniel, MD explains migraine in practical terms for readers who want the essential information without having to work through a large medical textbook.

The book begins with migraine with and without aura and explains how migraine is diagnosed using accepted headache-classification criteria. It then addresses one of the most important—and often misunderstood—problems in headache medicine: medication-overuse headache, in which excessive use of acute headache medications can transform an intermittent headache disorder into a much more frequent one.
Dr. Daniel also presents what he calls the Migraine Lifestyle—practical measures involving sleep, regular meals, caffeine, exercise, stress, and avoidance of medication overuse that may help patients reduce the frequency of attacks.

Treatment chapters review both acute and preventive therapy, including:

• Triptan medications
• Gepants such as Nurtec and Ubrelvy
• Reyvow
• Dihydroergotamine
• Anti-inflammatory medications
• Medical devices
• Beta blockers
• Amitriptyline
• Topiramate
• Valproate
• Botox
• CGRP-targeted preventive therapies

The book also discusses headache conditions that may be confused with migraine, including sinus headache, vascular headache, allergy-related headache, cluster headache, and medication-overuse headache.

Dr. Daniel has also written the much larger textbook Migraine, 2nd Edition. This first volume in The Mini Neurology Series was created for readers who want the central ideas of migraine diagnosis and treatment in a shorter, more accessible format.

Understand what migraine is, why attacks occur, what can make them worse, and the major approaches used to treat and prevent them.

The Mini Neurology Series, Volume 1: Migraine
By Britt Talley Daniel, MD

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