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Migraine

What are the causes?

Migraine is now much better understood, and considered to be a disorder involving brain areas involved in the processing and control of pain, other sensory input, and the blood vessels of the head. It is now considered that changes in brain chemistry cause the well-recognised blood vessel changes.

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Medical text written November 1991 by Contact a Family. Approved November 1991 by Professor M Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK and Dr J E Wraith, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Last updated February 2006 by Dr A MacGregor, Director of Clinical Research, The City of London Migraine Clinic, London, UK.

 

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