Robbins Headache Clinic Blog
Doctors Urge F.D.A. for Painkiller Limits
Narcotic painkillers are now the most widely prescribed class of drugs in the country. It is estimated that they are involved in 15,000 overdose deaths each year, mainly because of abuse. Studies have linked narcotic painkillers to dangers including sleep apnea, falls...
Omega-3 Supplements Perform No Better Than Placebo in Study
Neurology Reviews journal recently reported findings from a study that healthy older persons taking omega-3 supplements did no better on cognitive performance tests than persons taking placebo. The study looked at 3,500 participants over a period of six months, as...
Emotional Eating
Women who have job burnout are more likely to comfort themselves with food, and eat uncontrollably than women who are not overworked. Those were the findings from Finnish researchers who recently conducted a study looking at emotional eating. Other researchers have...
How Popular Music Depicts Migraine
Researchers from the neurology department at Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona recently published results from a study looking at how migraines and migraineurs are portrayed in popular music. Believing that popular music is mostly the territory of young people, the...
Famous People Also Struggle With Migraines
From records passed down over the centuries, it has been documented that many famous historical figures most likely suffered from migraine headaches. Julius Caesar, Thomas Jefferson, Vincent Van Gogh and Lewis Carroll were all probable migraineurs. Famous people in...
The Recreational Athlete and Head Injuries
While there has been a lot of coverage pertaining to concussions in young athletes as well as for professional athletes who have played high-level contact sports such as ice hockey and football, little has been discussed about long-term implications of concussions...
Finding Serenity
A new strategy for remaining calm, cool and collected when someone makes us angry has recently been published online in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Researchers from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan believe that a strategy...
Slower Walk May Point to Lowered Cognitive Function
Five studies recently presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Vancouver provide evidence that when a person's walk becomes slower, and less controlled his cognitive function is also suffering. "Changes in walking may predate actually...
“Lean Into It”
Linda Ruehlman, PhD is a social/health psychologist and co-founder of Goalistics and director of the Chronic Pain Management Program, an interactive site. While working out in a recent spin class, her instructor suggested that the class "lean into it" when the...
Excedrin and online auctions
"When someone finds something that works, and then they're not able to get it it can be a real problem" says Dr. Andrea Synowiec, a neurologist at Allegheny General Hospital in Pennyslvania. This has been the experience for many people who have relied on Excedrin for...