{"product_id":"b0f3tlqvt3","title":"The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction—and a Search for Relief","description":"\u003cp\u003eRequired reading for anyone with a head.—Mary Roach,  New York Times  bestselling author of  Stiff  and  Fuzz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbsorbing, incisive. . . Zeller captures the profound human and scientific costs of medicine's neglect of these common conditions that affect millions of people—especially women—and points the way toward a more hopeful future.—Maya Dusenbery, author of  Doing Harm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom blinding migraines to severe headache disorders known as “clusters,” chronic head pain affects 40% of the population, many of them suffering in silence. Finally,  The Headache  reveals the science behind a group of disorders that is as much a curse as a cultural punchline, and leads to key insights into the nature of pain itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGuided by his own decades-long struggle with cluster headaches, veteran science journalist Tom Zeller Jr.’s journey into headache science is at once intimate and panoramic. He visits cutting-edge clinics; interviews dozens of doctors, neurologists, and fellow headache patients; participates in clinical trials for multi-million-dollar new medicines; and even experiments with psilocybin in search of relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, Zeller traces the longer arc of mystery around headaches, from prehistoric skull surgery to Virginia Woolf’s assertion that, in the throes of a migraine, “language runs dry,” to reveal how headaches became one of the most under-researched afflictions in medicine—and how that is slowly starting to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith warmth, wit, and infectious curiosity, Zeller’s search for the origins of his own headaches becomes a journey into the inner workings of the human nervous system, and an invaluable witness to one of the most maligned conditions known to medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSupplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67902544445685,"sku":"YSL49795","price":6.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/71sQBJt7IBL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793437380","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0f3tlqvt3","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}