Profile: Jes Olesen: the people's neurologist

摘要

Thankfully, many neurological disorders are rare, but migraine affects about 10-30% of people at some point in their lives. This high prevalence is precisely why Jes Olesen, professor of neurology atthe University of Copenhagen and chief of the Danish Headache Center at Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, chose migraine as his specialty. "I was very socially minded", says Olesen. "I thought that these big population diseases-the ones where everybody knows about it, everybody has met people who have it-that they received far too little interest, especially from neurologists."