by Sue Robbins | Oct 1, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Why do we do it? Stress tends to make most of us eat more. We’re tempted everywhere we go with images of food. And, okay for the moment it can taste really good! Scientists are starting to understand how stress-related junk-food craving works. Stress can...
by Sue Robbins | Sep 30, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine say that people who have a specific abnormality in their brain structure are more likely to develop chronic pain after a lower back injury. The study was published in the journal Pain. The...
by Sue Robbins | Sep 29, 2013 | Headache Drugs
(from Dr. Robbins): The neuroimmune system plays a crucial role in headache and chronic pain. Most(87% or so) of the cells in the brain/spinal cord are neuroglia, not neurons. The drugs developed thus far generally target connections between neurons, such as the...
by Sue Robbins | Sep 27, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Dr. Andrew Weil, founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine recently weighed in on the topic of cell phones, Wi-Fi, and concerns for health. In an article recently published in Prevention magazine Dr Weil says: Electromagnetic sensitivity has...
by Sue Robbins | Sep 26, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Recently, Dr. Robbins spoke at the annual meeting of ClusterBusters, an organization founded by people who have cluster headaches, and people who care about them. While thankfully they are somewhat rare, for the people who experience them, the pain has been explained...
by Sue Robbins | Sep 25, 2013 | Headache Drugs
There is a large effort to integrate psychiatric care into primary-care practices, in the hope of making better use of a limited number of mental-health professionals. Providers are expecting a surge of new patients seeking mental-health care under the federal health...
