European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sufferers sometimes hate to lose migraines by Randi mutter Epstein the associated  s the use of a. Headache you might be surprised. Or. Oliver sacks faced that Odd question Early in his career when he successfully treated a migraine sufferer with drugs the patient was a 32-year-old mathematician whose week started with frenzied creativity peaked to irritability and plunged into painful migraines by sunday. Once cured the mathematician complained that he missed his weekly attacks. The drugs not Only killed his headaches but his imagination As Well he said. Shortly afterwards another migraine sufferer also cured by drugs phoned sacks to complain. His sundays had been previously filled with migraine. Now he was bored and. And did t know what to do. He said he really wanted his migraines Back said sacks a professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in new York t sacks recently updated a Book titled migraine which he wrote in 1967. It is not a discourse on headaches rather it describes in detail the syndrome that can include visual hallucinations transient paralysis and numbness. The ways in which patients adjust to illness sometimes in creative ways is a recurring theme in sacks medical and literary work. In his tales of neurotic Al disorders sacks explores the intimate and murky relationship Between traits triggered by disease and inherent personality. Does illness shape personality or vice versa is there a distinction Between True personality and one altered by a chemical disorder sacks by no Means suggests that his. Yvell " test w by a y v Jet a \ migraine pain affects 1 Bijj a branches of the Origen final nerve which conveys sensory impulses /. Throughout Tow face Skull �. Ten