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1% Thursday: Illustrate your Experience

by James on 12 November 2009

This week, draw a picture illustrating your headache, cluster headache and/or migraine symptoms.  If possible, share it with someone. Using art in the diagnosis, research and treatment of various diseases has a long and glorious history.  There are good reasons why art is so powerful – and good reasons why you should be using it [...]

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Don’t miss the blog carnival that was posted earlier this month on the topic of headache and migraine art.  This month the carnival was hosted by Pain in the Head here. You can read the entries for yourself, but a couple of short ones really caught my attention.  First, this brief poem along with photos [...]

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Migraine Art (video)

by James on 4 November 2008

For some time I’ve wanted to highlight some of the fantastic headache art and migraine art that is being submitted by visitors like you.  The YouTube video below will give you a glimpse of the reality of living with various types of migraine, and also an insight into the incredible creativity and talent that’s out [...]

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Welcome to part 2 of our interview with Jim Chambliss.  Mr. Chambliss is studying the connections between art, epilepsy and migraine.  If you missed the background and part 1, read yesterday’s post, Migraine Art: An Interview with Jim Chambliss. Why did you add migraine art to the study? During the course of our study of [...]

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Migraine Art: An Interview with Jim Chambliss

by James on 21 October 2008

We’ve always had an interest in migraine, headache, and art in general here.  Migraine disease, chronic headache, and cluster disease have inspired fascinating art forms throughout the centuries. Now Jim Chambliss is heading up some research to better understand both migraine art and epilepsy art.  In this interview, we talk with Mr. Chambliss about his [...]

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