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Hello.
Thank you for this opportunity
to speak about migraine.
This is a series of 16 or
so lectures about migraine.
It's a little different from
the usual textbook presentation.
We're going to do a
much deeper dive into
migraine and headache
from the perspective of
how best to understand
the phenomenon,
how to manage it,
and how to deal with
those unusual patients
that are outside the parameters
of the usual
treatment guidelines.
My name is Rob Cowan.
I'm a Higgins Professor of
Neurology and Neurosciences
at Stanford University
and the founding director of
the headache program there.
The title of my presentation is
Migraine from 30,000 feet.
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I have no relevant disclosures,
but my other activities
are listed here.
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We're going to begin by
thinking of this as a
thought experiment.
In this talk, I won't
be going through
diagnostic criteria
or treatment options,
rather we are going
to think about
migraine and head pain
from a philosophical
perspective.
I think it'll be very
instructive to frame
the challenges that we see
in clinical practice
with headaches.
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There is a difference
between theory and practice.
A wonderful definition comes
from Bertrand Russell that
"Science is what you know.
Philosophy is what
you don't know."
Theory is everything
exclusive of
the technical precepts
and practical arts.
Other talks will go through
treatment strategies,
treatment options,
and things like that.
We're going to talk about
the philosophy of
migraine, to begin with.
I think there's a few
things that we all,
