Health

Nightly sleep disturbance linked to daily risk of migraines

Nearly half of all patients who suffer migraines report sleep disturbance as a trigger for their headaches. But the relationship between sleep and migraine headaches is not well understood or well-studied. Investigators from ...

Health

Migraine sufferers needlessly enduring agonizing pain

Hundreds of thousands of Australians are needlessly enduring days of agony because they don't know how to prevent migraines, researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have found.

Health

Understanding migraine headaches

June is Migraine and Headache Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about migraines.

Neuroscience

A new marker for migraine?

Researchers may have discovered a new marker found in the blood for episodic migraine, according to a study published in the September 9, 2015, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. ...

Neuroscience

Researchers find master switch for adult epilepsy

UC Irvine and French researchers have identified a central switch responsible for the transformation of healthy brain cells into epileptic ones, opening the way to both treat and prevent temporal lobe epilepsy.

Psychology & Psychiatry

Mindfulness meditation may decrease impact of migraine

Migraine is a neurological disease that can be severely debilitating and is the second leading cause of disability worldwide. Unfortunately, many patients with migraine discontinue medications due to ineffectiveness or side ...

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