Migraine Art: The Migraine Experience from Within
“It has taken more than a decade and a half, butMigraine Art: The Migraine Experience  from Withinhas been well worth the wait for all of us with an interest in visual  phenomena and the brain…. [It] stands as the definitive work of its kind—an incomparable  collection of material on the visual and other phenomena of migraine, and, by implication,  on the brain processes which underlie these.”—Foreword by Oliver Sacks"One of  the most fascinating under-the-radar art books of recent times is North Atlantic’s  Migraine Art, a book based on a contest held in Germany which asked people to illustrate  what a migraine felt like. The results of the contest were incredible: crazy nightscapes,  lightening bolts through the eyes, parts of heads missing…"—RandomHouseLibrary.com“First,Migraine Artis, literally, a beautiful book, filled with both fascinating  and gorgeous illustrations by migraine artists—adults and children, celebrated and  obscure.  Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson provide a comprehensive overview of their  subject, the symptoms and mechanisms of migraine as translated into “outsider” art  by migraine sufferers. But they do something else too; something humane and profound:  they show us in remarkable detail how people respond to pain with creativity, and  tell us much, too, about the unexplored bonds between science and the humanities,  between the hard facts of our bodies, and the labor of our imaginations.”—Andrew  Levy, author ofA Brain Wider Than the Sky: A MigraineDiary“This magnum opus from Klaus Podoll and Derek Robinson is a key to migraine research that has been a long time coming. If you want to understand your own symptoms better, and those of others, there are few books that will offer more insight.”—Migraine and Headache News