The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction-and a Search for Relief

"Required reading for anyone with a head."—Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Fuzz

"[The Headache] weaves together history, biology, a survey of current research, testimony from patients, and an agonizing account of Zeller’s own suffering. . . If there’s a lesson here, it’s that pain resists mastery, but understanding, however incomplete, can offer its own form of relief."—New Yorker

From blinding migraines to severe headache disorders known as “clusters,” chronic head...