by Sue Robbins | Aug 26, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Advanced Headache Pearls by Larry Robbins M.D. * DEFINITION OF PAIN “Official Definition” vs. “Pain is what the patient says it is, and it’s as bad as the patient says it is. * MEDICATIONS : MINIMIZE Balance between headaches and medication....
by Sue Robbins | Aug 23, 2013 | Headache Drugs
The following is an article we posted on the Robbins’ Nest Blog last August. We often hear about the “placebo effect”; it seems timely to mention again the “nocebo effect.” A placebo is typically a fake medication used as a control in a...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 22, 2013 | Headache Drugs
A recent study from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago was published in the July issue of Neurology. It found that greater cognitive activity in childhood, as well as middle age can make for a better brain in older age. Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen have a few...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 21, 2013 | Headache Drugs
While one in five Americans take at least one psychiatric medication, our country is facing a crisis in new drug breakthroughs. Dr. Richard A Friedman, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College believes the drugs available to patients with...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 20, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Researchers at the University of Utah are working to better understand photophobia, or light sensitivity – though management of it remains difficult. “Light sensitivity is a very common problem, and most ophthalmologists – most physicians in general...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 19, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Dawn A. Marcus, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh weighs in on the relationship between melatonin and headaches… Melatonin is a hormone produced in the pineal gland in the brain that regulates sleep. Many studies have linked sleep with migraine. For example,...
