Headache History in Chicago

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The National Headache Foundation exists to enhance the healthcare of headache sufferers. It is a source of help to sufferers' families, physicians who treat headache sufferers, allied healthcare professionals and to the public. The NHF accomplishes its mission by providing educational and informational resources, supporting headache research and advocating for the understanding of headache as a legitimate neurobiological disease.

http://www.headaches.org/cms

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the National Headache Foundation and this week is - National Headache Awareness Week June 6 - 12 

Headache events and public education programmes have been scheduled for all of this week

http://www.headaches.org/pdf/2009-2010/2010NHAWActivities.pdf

On Tuesday June 8 2010

Presented by Chicago Society for The History of Medicine And The Humanities

Headache Through the Ages

A lecture by Seymour Diamond, M.D., Director Emeritus and Founder of the Diamond Headache Clinic, and Adjunct Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

http://www.hektoen.org/events.html

“The treatment of headache has long been speculated and recorded. From the Bible to the Talmud, and the illuminated manuscripts of monks in the Middle Ages, headache treatment has been a favorite subject. Literature is replete with early and discarded theories and therapies.

Dr. Diamond traces the history of the headache, an ailment that acquired recognition as early as 4000 BC in ancient Mesopotamia, by the Sumarians.  Egyptologists discovered a compilation of medical texts, dating to 1550 BC”

Time: 5:00 - 5:30 pm, reception - 5:30 - 6:30 pm, lecture

Location:  2100 W. Harrison

Auditorium, 1st floor

Cost: Complimentary

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Previously by NHF -

The Effects of Hallucinogens on Cluster Headaches

November 18th, 2009

http://www.headaches.org/blog

“New studies from Dr. John Halpern of McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School reveal that the use of psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin (found in a type of mushroom) have helped many people suffering from cluster headaches, widely accepted as the most painful kind of headache.

Dr. Halpern and his team were inspired by the Cluster Busters, a group of cluster headache sufferers determined to find a cure for their excruciating headaches who have turned to hallucinogens because they believe it’s currently the only hope.”