European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse By Steve Courtney Hartford courant a neurologist s life is not always a Happy one. A. A we Don t Deal with cheerful moments in Peoples lives Quot says or Alan m. Rapoport. Quot doctors refer brain tutors Parkinson s disease brain = death strokes to us there a not much you can do in the Way of cure. But headaches bad As they Are you can help them. I love Rapoport and or. Fred d. Sheftell a psychiatrist founders of the new England Center for headache based in Stamford conn., recently Book. Headache Relief Simon and schuster $18.95that describes their program of controlling and easing a no. Not curing a headache pain. Quot a lot of patients who have headaches Are not treated a very Well Quot says or. Louis Reik associate professor of a a neurology at the University of Connecticut medical Center in Farmington where he directs a resource Center and clinic for headache treatment. A a lot of doctors Don t take them very . In their Book Rapoport and Sheftell get the brain tumor Issue out of the Way quickly fewer than. A. 1 percent of those seeking help for headaches have brain tutors and tutors Are usually personality changes seizures and other symptoms. The big three headaches Are muscle contraction or. Quot tension Quot headaches migraines and Cluster headaches they say. a Quot every emotion thought or decision to act can be seen As a biochemical event within the brain Quot Rapoport and Sheftell say in their Book and sometimes those emotions can cause an imbalance in the amount of serotonin one of the chemicals that transmits information from one Neuron in the brain to another and regulates the body s response to stress. D a Quot do one of the responses a a hunching or tensing of the a. Shoulder muscle or trapezius to guard against danger almost trying to draw the head Down into the body. A. This tension seems to put pressure on the occipital. Artery that runs up the Back of the Skull and it is characteristic of a muscle contraction headache a the. Type 75 percent to 80 percent of the population a suffers Quot. Quot. A a a the begins in the Back of the head and radiates Forward on both sides of the head. Al comes the a temples and behind the eyes Quot the sensation is like having the head caught in a Vise a a they write. Mfg Alnes which Are Felt on one Side of the head affect 8 percent to 12 percent of the population and 75 percent of patients Are women who began getting them when they started to menstruate. A a migraine May begin with the victim seeing brightly coloured blinking lines known As it lasts from 8 to 72 hours the pain usually starts in a Temple or an. Eye and May spread to the neck or Arm. There is nausea vomiting and diarrhoea. A these headaches Start when the blood vessels in tire head Are constricted the auras Are produced when the brain in t getting enough blood. However this condition. Then changes to its opposite the dilation of blood vessels help for new Kwh no i graphic on the surface of the brain and on the Scalp. A w a a at this Point Quot it seems As though the head might Hurst from an excess of Rapoport and Sheftell write a they believe that Levels of serotonin May be related to the cause of these headaches a that some people Are Quot simply Moio sensitive to its Levels in the body Cluster headaches known As the suicide cause Quot unon durable pain Quot. Rapoport says. Victims can t sit still he move they Rock they bang their head against the Wall a sometimes through a plate Glass. . affect less than 1 percent of the population a but a men suffer them mom than women by a ratio of 5 to 1 the pain which May follow a period of elation begins in the gum Cheek Temple forehead Eye or All Over one Side of the head. It starts with a sense of fullness on one Side then Dull discomfort a then stabbing pain a spreading15 Crescent of pain and a narrow intense Force. Cluster headaches usually last about 90 minutes. They often reappear at exactly the sometime the next Day most often Between 6 and 8 p.m., or about 90 minutes after Scep begins the episodes last four to six then do not recur for five months to a year. A a. A Quot it May be that a persons biological clock is out of. Whack Quot says Rapoport. That timepiece is based in the hypothalamus a part of the brain and May respond to. Cycles of Light and darkness. What to do about headaches. At the new England Center the initial consultation. Which costs Quot in the upper $600 Range Quot includes the. Taking of a detailed medical history psychological tests a a conference with a patient v and spouse it also includes measurement by. Biofeedback equipment to Check such physiological. A a factors As How fast blood flows under the eyebrows for. Migraine patients it flows faster. It the measurement of heat patterns on the head often showing an uneven temperature pattern that provides a kind of full color picture of a headache. A. A Quot often this is the first sign to a headache sufferer that a there really is something physically wrong Quot Rapoport says. A d -.d. A. A a a finally a course of action is set up at the Center v possibly combining some medication with relaxation. Techniques a change in diet sessions exercise and psychotherapy. D m a ,. A a. Tuesday december 14, 1990 the stars and stripes k ick Page 17
