Dr. Mauskop is a licensed acupuncturist and the author of a book, The Headache Alternative: A Neurologist's Guide to Drug-Free Relief, published by Dell. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and Past President of the Eastern Pain Association. Dr. Mauskop has conducted and published important studies on the role of magnesium deficiency in migraines and other headaches. He has been conducting reasearch into various new treatments for headaches and pain. He was listed in the New York magazine's Best Doctors in New York as well as in the book How to Find the Best Doctors in New York Metro Area. Dr. Mauskop has appeared on national and local news programs featuring new treatments for headaches.

Dr. Mauskop was born in the former Soviet Union, where he received his MD degree. After arriving in the US in 1979, he completed a one-year internal medicine and a three-year neurology residency at the State University of New York (Downstate), followed by a two-year fellowship in pain management at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.