I googled your term and found this reference on a healthboard:
http://www.healthboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=518801Prior to me being diagnosed with OCD and anxiety, I could lessen the effects of the "head shakes" by drinking an alcoholic beverage. This would work if I was going out to a party or restaurant, but not such a good idea if I had to get my eyes checked! Now that I am on anti-anxiety meds, the "head shakes" have almost disappeared while at restaurants, but I still have them when getting a haircut or eye exam.
Anxiety, like a lot of other emotions, is contagious.
Now I know why I gave up watching that show.
Like a lot of cable news, the whole point of the program is to reinforce -- through constant repetition -- a sort of cultural rorshach/narrative that's constantly flipping back and forth. I'd compare it to Tesla's discovery of alternating electrical current. Just as AC is much more suitable for long distance transmission, when the purpose of your newscast is to alternately piss off one half of your news audience, then the other; first the 'blue', then the 'red', then the 'blue', again; over and over... without ever having to provide any real solutions to actual problems. That would require honesty, objectivity and addressing reality. (Which might actually bring some sort of unity or common purpose to the news audience.) The overlords who make all the cable news programming decisions get the most bang for their buck -- the biggest zap on the collective unconscious -- when they do the most to maintain the status quo. The constant 'spinning' is what they're after. They could care less about providing actual information.
It really gets ridiculous sometimes, when the NewsNarrative "jumps the shark," and WhatActuallyHappenedSomewhereInTheWorld is ignored, in favor of the approved "spin."
{The most recent case in point occurred during the second debate, when both Obama and McCain talked about restraining "Russian Aggression." Overlooked was the fact that the Georgians actually agreed to a ceasefire and talks, then broke their word with an artillery and tank assault on civilian residential areas, in Tsinkashvili, the night of August 7th. That Georgian attack occurred after Cheney's guy had recently visited. But McCain's foreign policy advisor (Randy Schoeneman) wasn't being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby for Georgia, to allow things like that to continue to be reported in the news. So, after the initial, accurate news accounts (Georgia attacked first), the "spin" narrative reasserted itself and Americans could comfortably go back to their old cold war frame. That also explains why any pundit or talking head on any news channel that ever looks at relations with Russia from the Russian point of view will sound like a refugee from an old episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle.} Anyway, Rachel Maddow is able to actually present news and information.
Mika is out of her depth doing anything but compulsively riding the anxiety cycle, like one of those gym rats with an eating disorder on a stair-stepper.
PS
An interesting google result on Randy Schoeneman. I'm still not sure I spelled his name correctly, but in 2004 he was head of the "Iraqi Liberation Foundation," according to Joseph Wilson's book,
The Politics of Truth, Inside the Lies that Led to War:http://books.google.com/books?id=nS9puh1zDKkC&pg=PA321&lpg=PA321&dq=randy+Shoeneman&source=web&ots=Iq3XzzruZL&sig=g_alwfkScX8hvd6YZyffKBAn2ho&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result 
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