Stories and Art
Aging and migraine
When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine, Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I’d been out till quarter to three Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I’m sixty-four?
The Beetles
New in January 2016
This new “machine” is a portable, single-pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (sTMS) device.
It has been approved by the FDA “for acute treatment of pain associated with migraine headache with aura.” From the manual, “The SpringTMS is intended for self-treatment and delivers a non-invasive, brief, single pulse of magnetic energy to the back of the head. This creates a brief electrical current in the brain intended to stop or reduce the effects of migraine headaches.” These mild electrical currents excite and depolarize neurons in the brain. They inhibit CSD or cortical spreading depression and thus have the potential to terminate aura and subsequent headache.