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Annotated Bibliography On Migraine

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Scholarly journal
Silberstein, S. (2004). Migraine. The Lancet, 363(9406), 381-391. This article comes from a scholarly journal article called Migraine. It is about as the title of the article conveys about migraines. The author Stephen Silberstein talks about the cause, symptoms, treatment and types of migraines in detail by mentioning published medical researches and experiment. In this scholarly journal article migraine is a neurological disorder in most articles that are published a couple of years ago before this article was published it was thought that migraine was an inflammation of blood vessels in the brain but now the theory that it is genetic is supported by extensive research proving that indeed it Is a “neurological, gastrointestinal, …show more content…

According to him the stigma of migraine is the same as the stigma for epilipsy when it comes to how the people react. The stigma of migraine has gotten out of control that even the government is underfunding migraine research because it’s just a headache which is a big misunderstood topic about migraines. Dr. young and his intern Joanna Kempner did an experiment that proves that people understanding about migraine is low which results in the stigma of offending people for not doing work or going to school or other activity “for a headache”. The stigma of migraines highly affects quality of life. According to Kempner the suffering of migraine patients is “invisible” and “not …show more content…

This article is so detailed at the same time very easy to understand. The article was published in 2008 it can be easily verified is it is credible. The article was printed in a magazine that was under Migraine Action Association; Migraine Trust which clearly specializes in such study and cases. The source is objective because the article referenced different credible sources as a support material. The supporting material is relevant as I mentioned before it mainly and clearly supports the main points I wanted to mention.
Website
Marcus, D. (2013, January 07). How Does Migraine Affect Your Life? Retrieved May 12, 2016, from https://migraine.com/blog/research-opportunity-how-does-migraine-affect-your-life/
According to the Migraine website, migraines impair the life of a person and diminishes the quality of life by preventing them from spending time with friends and family, missing work or school. The author of this article Dr. Marcus migraines affect important aspect of a patient’s life in a way most people don’t understand. In a survey done in 2003 by Lipton and colleagues majority of the patients have lost relationship or negatively affected their relationship with loved ones. And quarter pf the people missed important dates and the rest avoided public outings that they think will trigger their migraine and in another

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