Our story
Our mission
Migraine science you can understand and trust.
Cerebral Torque makes high-quality migraine education accessible to all, free of charge.
We read the peer-reviewed research, translate it into plain language, and point you to the studies behind it.
Our book Unraveling Migraine, our tracker The Migraine Record and our CROWN cooling roller fund everything on this site.
Our story in one minute
What is Cerebral Torque?
Why we started, what we make, and why it stays free.
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Migraine affects more than a billion people. So why is good information so hard to find? Look it up and you land in a maze. Miracle cures, scary myths, paywalls. That's why Cerebral Torque exists. We take real migraine research and turn it into plain language anyone can use. Guides in our Resource Hub. The newest studies, explained. Even help finding a headache specialist. And it's all free. No paywalls, no catch. So how do we keep it that way? Our products. Everything we make follows the same rule. Evidence first. Every one you pick up helps keep the lights on and the learning free. Because understanding your own brain shouldn't cost a thing. Cerebral Torque. Real migraine science. Free for everyone.
Free for everyone
Every guide, article and video is free to read. No paywalls, ever.
Research-backed
We translate the latest peer-reviewed research into clear, honest migraine guidance.
Honest about evidence
We say how strong the evidence is, including when a study is small or has no control group.
How we work
How we write, who pays, and how we fix mistakes
Health information is only useful if you can trust it. Here is how we handle ours.
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How we write
We work from the primary research: the trials, cohort studies, meta-analyses and clinical guidelines themselves, not press releases.
Newer guides link each study they rely on, on PubMed or through the journal's DOI, so you can read it yourself.
We say how strong the evidence is. A small study with no control group gets described as exactly that.
Plain language, not dumbed down. We explain the terms instead of skipping them.
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Who pays for this
Everything on this site is free. It stays free because of the things we make: the book Unraveling Migraine, The Migraine Record and the CROWN cooling roller. They're sold on Amazon, and CROWN Plus is coming soon.
No one pays to be listed or recommended in our headache specialist directory. When we write about something we make, we say so.
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Corrections
Spotted a mistake, an outdated number, or an older post that makes a claim without a source? Tell us. We check it against the original study and fix the page if we got it wrong.
Email support@cerebraltorque.com with the page link and what looks off.
Cerebral Torque is education, not medical advice. For decisions about your own care, talk to your clinician.
About the author
Cerebral Torque
Founder of Cerebral Torque and author of Unraveling Migraine, with a medical background.
Trained in computational and cellular neuroscience, with research using Hodgkin-Huxley modeling and clamp electrophysiology to study how neurons respond to rhythmic input. Now focused on migraine medicine and education, and has produced CME for clinicians on hormone therapy, migraine, and HRT delivery.
Cerebral Torque is a pen name. Everything on this site, in the book and on r/migrainescience is written under it.
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