“It’s like something you’d see on Star Trek”. That’s how it was described five years ago in this video: therapeutic magnetic stimulation in migraine. This technique is investigated for much longer. Now, yesterday, the FDA allowed marketing …

Would you dare script the mother say, “I lied, I don’t really have breast cancer”? Two days ago, a petition on Change.org appeared that I would like you to consider signing.  Change.org is the go-to …

Are their any signs of heightened consciousness in dying brains? Or is it just a wave of death as others have called it—more sober: a latency to unconsciousness. A new study [1] suggests exactly that, …

“A text was not something fixed and eternal but the product of the reader’s mind in conjunction with the author’s“. That’s just one sentence in the ongoing debate on Virginia Heffernan’s text “Why I’m a …

On my way back to Germany with my flight being delayed, I have some time to write about the International Headache Congress that I’ve visited here in Boston. We had many good talks, some about …

A long time ago, I heard that my great uncle—he was only referred to as Uncle Sepp—collected butterflies. Someone in my family mentioned it. Actually, Uncle Sepp was a butcher. He lived in New Jersey. …

Some time ago, we published a paper in PLoS ONE on early migraine symptoms called migraine aura. These symptoms can be mapped onto the human cortical surface. We used individual drawings of the visual field …

The next generation of brains: from retinal gigapixel to curved cortices. The pattern of the highly folded surface of the brain is a prominent features of the human brain. It looks a bit like a …

Do we consider consciousness as a matter of physics or rather—engineering? I read a nice post by Sean Carroll: Feynman on Initial Conditions, Evolving Laws, and What We Consider Physics. Consciousness is the obvious candidate …

It is a bad hair day for Lefkowitz, as I learned this morning form the SciAm podcast “The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry“. And since there was also a brief mentioning of migraine in this …