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Genetic models of migraine.
Archives of neurology - 1 May 2007
van de Ven Rob C G, Kaja Simon, Plomp Jaap J, Frants Rune R, van den Maagdenberg Arn M J M, Ferrari Michel D
Abstract excerpt
Migraine is a common, disabling, complex brain disorder, presenting in attacks that may have up to 3 phases: a prodromal phase, the aura phase, and the headache phase. The pathogenesis of the aura and headache phases is reasonably well understood, but the mechanism by which migraine attacks are triggered is unknown. Most likely, migraineurs have a genetically determined reduced threshold for migraine triggers....
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