A person with migraine walks into the doctor's office. The conversation begins where it usually ends. Not a joke. I just relaunched the Migraine Aura Foundation — with a new feature in early testing. Looking for people to try it. 🧵

I wanted to solve a persistent migraine/aura problem my daughter suffers with. I didn't have the data so I extracted all migraine events programmatically from five years of our text message history. For each event identified I pulled 96-hours of weather data preceding its onset, including barometric pressure, temperature, and humidity. The result is a dataset of 79 migraines with their preceding weather patterns, which proved my hypothesis that a dip in pressure followed by a spike, precedes a migraine by about ~12-14 hours. A temperature dip, and spike in humidity accompanies that pattern, every single time. So with accurate forecasting data it would likely be possible to provide fairly confident windows of migraine risk, which can be mitigated ahead of time. If you have any kind of chronic or persistent health issue the best thing you can do is collect data. Track symptoms daily. Soon enough someone somewhere will be able to do something with it that solves it.

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT. This 60-minute Cambridge lecture by Demis Hassabis will teach you more about the future of AI than most people will learn in the next 5 years. Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

I’m seeking legal counsel (IP, domain, health ethics). Migraine Aura Foundation gave voice to invisible pain for 20 yrs. Now our website's content was hijacked — promoting erectile disfunction drugs. (Already send DMCA Takedown & Abuse Report) tinyurl.com/help-migraine

I’m at #fh24

Do you want to discuss clinical trial methodology for #CNS disorders? I recently learned about @isctm isctm.societyconference.com/… when they invited me to speak and serve on an upcoming panel at their annual scientific meeting.(I will present virtually.) #mhealth #migraine @WNGtweets

Very interesting session on the grey areas of trigeminovascular activation in #Headaches with myself, @SaitAshina and @brennan_kc at #IHC2023. #TensionTypeHeadache #migraine #Neurology #muscles

How cortical spreading depolarization (CSD) affects meningeal afferents to drive migraine headache? Our new afferent imaging study in awake mice implicates acute calcium response and prolonged sensitization to locomotion-related meningeal deformation. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Die FAZ sucht jemanden für das Wissenschaftsressort @faznet recruitingapp-5043.de.umanti…

Wie würdet ihr »Butterflies of New Jersey« übersetzen?

Kenntnisse in Physiologie 🧠 & Regelungstechnik 🎛️. Alte Lehrbücher sind heute wieder modern. altamirage.de/physiologie-le…

Frisch on der Wochenendepresse: »Altamirage ist dieses quixotische Abraham-Maslows-“Law of the Instrument”-zum-Feature-Erheben. Wenn man nur einen Hammer hat, sehen alle Probleme wie ein Nagel aus. Altamirage sagt: Na und? Feature it!« altamirage.de/altamirage

Migraine friends, I need ideas to help with sleep. I take melatonin gummies 10mg before bed. Makes me tired and I can doze for max 2 hours then I’m up. Such a vicious cycle of no sleep and migraine. #MigraineChat 🥱 @beth_morton

Die Unterscheidung Serendipität und Altamirage verbildlicht. altamirage.de/altamirage

Serendipität ist, wenn der Zufall das Leben prägt. Altamirage ist, wenn das Leben den Zufall prägt. altamirage.de/altamirage

Freude ist, wenn man nach gefühlt einem Jahrzehnt sowas noch im Gedächtnis der Fingermotorik wiederfindet: $> for i in `seq -w 26`; do touch script_$i.md; done Die Vorlesung wird bald in Altamirage sein, denn das Blog läuft in blot.im dank @smoitzheim

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