Long-form essays from the clinic — in-depth reads by a neurologist, beyond the quick guides.
Magnesium can help prevent migraine, but most people take too little, the wrong form, or quit too soon. Here is the dose, form and timeline I use in clinic.
Pregnant with migraine? A neurologist explains what is safe (acetaminophen, metoclopramide, sometimes sumatriptan), what to avoid, and when a headache means preeclampsia.
Visual aura with no headache is usually migraine aura without headache, but new-onset cases after 40 need a stroke and eye check. Here is how I sort them out.
A headache that began with COVID and never left is usually a migraine-type or daily persistent pattern, not mysterious. Here is how I sort it out, and what needs urgent care.
A headache during sex is usually a harmless primary headache — but the same trigger can unmask a brain bleed. Here’s how I tell them apart.
Told your dizziness is anxiety, BPPV, or Meniere’s? Here’s how I diagnose vestibular migraine, and why most patients wait years for the right answer.
When high-flow oxygen fails for cluster headache, the setup is usually wrong before the biology is. A neurologist on masks, flow rates, timing — and what to try when it truly doesn’t work.
A new headache with one-sided neck pain after a twist, adjustment or hard gym session can mean a torn neck artery. A neurologist on the warning window and the right scan.
Daily headache plus a whooshing pulse in the ear and brief vision greyouts can mean intracranial hypertension, not migraine. The eye exam that settles it.
A neurologist explains why most incidental unruptured brain aneurysms don’t cause headache, how rupture risk is actually calculated, the three warning patterns that are emergencies, and whether you can still take migraine medication.
