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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sacks points out that some drugs simply work for migraines, even though they don't have any ________ basis for this.

2. What is identified as crude images among the possible visualizations that a patient can see during their migraine attack?

3. When a patient realizes he will have less pain when he fights off a severe attack, he is more likely to choose to undergo a brief bout of ___________.

4. Migraines may very well take on the particular aspects of the ________ though it may never be clear what prompts the unit as a whole.

5. Another of the medical deterrents to treating a migraine is aimed at the emotional ______ where this is considered to be a primary source of migraines.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do some researchers believe that manual compression will be helpful for the reduction of pain during the migraine?

2. What are the two categories of hallucinations that are most often attributed to migraine experiences?

3. Why was Lashley mostly dismissed by his contemporaries in the migraine research field, according to the last section of this book?

4. What does Sacks say about the possibility that animals might also experience migraines?

5. What can happen with a geometrical ornamental structure, according to Fluver in this section?

6. What is the discovery that Lashely makes about the process of his own migraine scotomata?

7. What affects at least ten percent of the population, so many people that they have attracted attention and curiosity since the beginning of time?

8. What did Airy believe that migraine hallucinations allowed a person to do as a result of their appearance?

9. What kind of patient only needs to have a few appointments with their physician each year?

10. Where did Ralph Siegel, PhD work when he co-authored the last chapter with Oliver Sacks, according to the footnote?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Migraines are associated with debilitating pain, which means that patients need pain medications.

Part 1: Do you think some people fake migraines in order to get pain medications?

Part 2: How do you think migraines could be treated without pain medications? Is this possible?

Part 3: Do you think pain medication should be the only treatment for migraines?

Essay Topic 2

Migraines are at risk of being misdiagnosed, according to Sacks in the book.

Part 1: Why do you think it might be difficult to diagnose migraines in patients?

Part 2: How do you think misdiagnosis might be avoided in the treatment of migraines?

Part 3: Do you think that misdiagnosis is every completely avoidable?

Essay Topic 3

The many symptoms associated with migraines seem to make them difficult to diagnose.

Part 1: Why do you think doctors associate so many symptoms with migraines?

Part 2: How do you think doctors work to diagnose a condition?

Part 3: Do you think that everyone with migraine symptoms is actually suffering from migraines?

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