Your brain on migraine

• Autores: Helen Philips
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3011, 2015, págs. 38-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Phillips reports that migraine is often thought of as an occasional severe headache, sometimes accompanied by strange visual effects and nausea. There's a feeling it isn't really serious because once the headache is over the person goes back to normal. But these bizarre and disturbing aura symptoms alone should tell people there's far more to migraine than meets the eye. Over the past decade, research has been building a picture of a condition which is much more serious than many give it credit for. It shows that migraine is caused by real structural and functional differences in the brain, and that people who experience migraines feel, see, touch, hear and respond to the world differently all the time, not just during an attack.