Caroline
Brooks,
PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Kentucky
Dr. Caroline V. Brooks is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. Her research integrates medical sociology, social psychology, and social networks with a focus on chronic illness and migraine, specifically. Dr. Caroline V. Brooks is an emergent national leader in headache sociology.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
More individuals complain about headaches than any other condition. Headaches are disorders without a biological marker; the diagnosis is based on history and symptoms. Migraine is the third most prevalent disorder affecting 15% of Americans. As the most stigmatized neurological disease, society and media view it as just a bad headache, instead of a debilitating and disabling disease. Therefore, migraine is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Similarly, cluster headache, aka suicide headache, remains widely underdiagnosed due to insufficient awareness among physicians frequently causing…