Angela A Stanton, PhD

Angela A Stanton, PhD, is a Neuroeconomist who evaluates changes in behavior, chronic pain, decision-making, as a result of hormonal variations in the brain. She lives in Southern California. Her current research is focused on migraine cause, prevention and treatment without the use of medicines.

As a migraineur, her discovery was helped by experimenting on herself.

She found the cause of migraine to be at the ionic level, associated with disruption of the electrolyte homeostasis, resulting from genetic mutations of insulin and glucose transporters, and voltage gated sodium and calcium channel mutations. Such mutations cause major shifts in a migraine brain, unlike that of a non-migraine brain. A non-migraineur can handle electrolyte changes on autopilot. A migraineur must always be on manual guard for such changes to maintain electrolyte homeostasis.

The book Fighting The Migraine Epidemic: How To Treat and Prevent Migraines Without Medicines - An Insider's View explains why we have migraines, how to prevent them and how to stay migraine (and medicine) free for life.

Because of the success of the first edition and new research and findings, she is now finishing the 2nd edition. The 2nd edition is the “holy grail” of migraines, incorporating all there is to know at the moment and also some hypotheses. It includes an academic research section with suggestions for further research. The book is full of citations to authenticate the statements she makes to be followed up by those interested and to spark further research interest.

While working on the 2nd edition of the book she also published academic articles:

"Migraine Cause and Treatment" Mental Health in family Medicine, November 23, 2015, open access
"Functional Prodrome in Migraines" Journal of Neurological Disorders, January 22, 2016, open access
"Are Statistics Misleading Sodium Reduction Benefits?", Journal of Medical Diagnostic Method, February 3, 2016, open access
“A Comment on Severe Headache or Migraine History Is Inversely Correlated With Dietary Sodium Intake: NHANES 1999-2004” Angela A Stanton PhD, 19 July 2016 DOI: 10.1111/head.12861 not open access, membership required to read it.

Dr. Stanton received her BSc at UCLA in Mathematics, MBA at UCR, MS in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, PhD in NeuroEconomics at Claremont Graduate University, and fMRI certification at Harvard University Medical School at the Martinos Center for Neuroimaging for experimenting with neurotransmitters on human volunteers.

For relaxation Dr. Stanton paints and photographs. Follow her on Twitter at: @MigraineBook

Angela A Stanton,Ph.D.

Sweet Death by Sugar

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

January 19, 2015

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We all know that sugar is bad for us but we cannot resist it. Why not? Expert Robert Lustig MD, reasoned on

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The Truth About Salt

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

December 29, 2014

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When we salt our food, we rarely think of salt as a crucial aspect of our physiology. In particular, we think it

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Migraines and Hormones: Behind the Curtain

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

December 15, 2014

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Before puberty, migraines are three times more frequent in males than in females but after puberty the tides turn and females are

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The Anatomy of a Migraine

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

November 17, 2014

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What is the anatomy of a migraine? Do migraines have an anatomy, a location map, in the same way heart disease does?

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Dehydration and Salt Deficiency Trigger Migraines

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

November 4, 2014

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I had migraines for well over 20 years. I am not alone; about 12% of the US population has migraines. Initially, I

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