by Sue Robbins | Aug 28, 2013 | Headache Drugs
Salk Institute for Biological Studies researchers have discovered that a series of compounds called opsinamides can block a receptor in the eye called melanopsin – a receptor found in neurons linking the eyes and the brain. Ten years ago the researchers found...
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 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,...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 12, 2013 | Headache Drugs
The following is an excerpt of an article by Juliann Garey, recently published in The New York Times. Garey is the author of the novel “Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See” and a co-editor of “Voices of Bipolar Disorder: The Healing Companion.”...
