One of the biggest personal factors in my decision to study neuroscience was my mother's life-long struggle with CH. I think it's important to illustrate how carelessly we use the terms headache or migraine to encapsulate many different illnesses. I feel that this is a perfect example of poor science communication. It's so deeply ingrained that a fucking neurosurgeon is very confidently and wrongly telling some stranger on the internet the "science" behind their personal headache. He doesn't use language like "you could be experiencing this because.." or "to my current understanding...". This language is important because migraine and headache disorders are not as thoroughly researched as they should be. Did you know that MS and CH have the same frequency, yet MS has 932 times the funding from the NIHS? This also parallels many different headache disorders. As scientists we need to say " I am not sure.", "we aren't entirely sure, but...", and "the mechanism isn't understood, however..." more often rather than dangerously watering down an already broad concept to the point of misinformation. I like that you used language clarifying that it was to the best of your knowledge and added footnotes to give more insight into other theories. Thank you for being so humble and communicative. Not only does good science community sow greater understanding; it saves lives, combats conspiracies and promotes well being.
Apologies if this makes no sense I am very, very tired LOL. found your content today through your big bang theory reaction. Hope you comeback to make more vids someday! very smart, good luck in your pursuits.
What? NeuroSx and Neurologists have super high views of themselves?? 😱😱 Whaaaattt no waaaay. I could've never guessed. 🤣
It's shocking, I know lol
One of the biggest personal factors in my decision to study neuroscience was my mother's life-long struggle with CH. I think it's important to illustrate how carelessly we use the terms headache or migraine to encapsulate many different illnesses. I feel that this is a perfect example of poor science communication. It's so deeply ingrained that a fucking neurosurgeon is very confidently and wrongly telling some stranger on the internet the "science" behind their personal headache. He doesn't use language like "you could be experiencing this because.." or "to my current understanding...". This language is important because migraine and headache disorders are not as thoroughly researched as they should be. Did you know that MS and CH have the same frequency, yet MS has 932 times the funding from the NIHS? This also parallels many different headache disorders. As scientists we need to say " I am not sure.", "we aren't entirely sure, but...", and "the mechanism isn't understood, however..." more often rather than dangerously watering down an already broad concept to the point of misinformation.
I like that you used language clarifying that it was to the best of your knowledge and added footnotes to give more insight into other theories. Thank you for being so humble and communicative. Not only does good science community sow greater understanding; it saves lives, combats conspiracies and promotes well being.
Apologies if this makes no sense I am very, very tired LOL. found your content today through your big bang theory reaction. Hope you comeback to make more vids someday! very smart, good luck in your pursuits.