Neuroscience
Migraine-linked protein exhibits sex-specific pain effects
A new preclinical study from University of Texas at Dallas researchers may help explain why migraine is three times more common in women than men.
Apr 8, 2019
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Neuroscience
Your brain with a migraine
When migraine sufferers see the tell-tale squiggly lines, light flashes and blind spots of a migraine aura, they prepare for a migraine. When researchers see the brain image of an aura, they try to figure out what causes ...
Jun 27, 2018
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Genetics
Study sheds light on genetic foundation of migraines
The nauseating, often debilitating, headaches affect 15-20 percent of adults in developed countries, yet they remain stubbornly hard to explain. Scientists know that migraines tend to run in families but aren't sure exactly ...
May 3, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New, long-acting drugs cut frequency of migraine headaches
New, long-acting drugs may hold hope for millions of people who often suffer migraines. Studies of two of these medicines, given as shots every month or so, found they cut the frequency of the notoriously painful and disabling ...
Nov 30, 2017
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Migraines may be the brain's way of dealing with oxidative stress
A new perspective article highlights a compelling theory about migraine attacks: that they are an integrated mechanism by which the brain protects and repairs itself. Recent insightful findings and potential ways to use them ...
Oct 19, 2017
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Neuroscience
Brain scans show dopamine levels fall during migraine attacks
Using PET scans of the brain, University of Michigan researchers showed that dopamine falls and fluctuates at different times during a migraine headache.
Mar 29, 2017
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Neuroscience
Wireless arm patch may blunt migraine pain
A wireless arm patch may be a promising new treatment for migraine headaches, researchers report.
Mar 1, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Commonly prescribed medicines no more effective than placebo for pediatric migraines
Prescribed medications are no more effective than a sugar pill when used to prevent migraines in children and teens.
Oct 27, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Neuropeptide may be real cause of migraines
A pair of researchers, one with New York University College of Dentistry in New York, the other with King's College in the U.K. has found that a neuropeptide may be responsible for the onset of migraines. In their paper published ...
Neuroscience
Link seen between seizures and migraines in the brain
Seizures and migraines have always been considered separate physiological events in the brain, but now a team of engineers and neuroscientists looking at the brain from a physics viewpoint discovered a link between these ...
Oct 30, 2014
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