I decided I wanted to know more about the advances in neuroscience in regard to migraines. This is significant to me because there is a pattern of them in my family. I have migraine headaches, my youngest sister does, my mom does, her dad did, and my son has them. I feel there must be some hereditary trait there. My mother was told by her doctor that she had a fifty-fifty chance of passing the problem of “migraines” on to her children. She had four children and two have migraines. I have two children and one has migraines. Science about the brain is very interesting to me. I analyzed three articles that addressed issues such as, is overuse of medication associated with migraine, what are the risk factors in migraine patients, and …show more content…
I examined the article, The role of BOLD-fMRI in elucidating migraine pathophysiology, from Neurological Sciences, May 2013 Supplement, by G. Tedeschi, A. Russo, F. Conte, F. Salemi, and A. Tessitore. They state in their abstract that even though there have been many discoveries in the study of functional changes in the body that occur in response to migraine and it’s still not completely understood. They studied both types of migraine, migraine with aura and migraine without aura, and found data suggesting a functional reorganization in the pain processing area of the brain that adjusts perception to pain. Two other studies, Application of behavioral therapies in adult and adolescent patients with chronic migraine, by Randall E. Weeks at The New England Center for Headache and Multidisciplinary approach to patients with chronic migraine and medication overuse: experience at the Besta Headache Center, by L. Grazzi from the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Headache Unit, C. Besta Neurological Institute and Foundation, Italy, both studied medication overuse and behavior effects on migraine sufferers. They had similar findings in their studies. Medication overuse is often a result of behavior because emotions and pain …show more content…
He sees this with the adjustments he makes on each of us. This is making sense to me know after reading this study. I did this exactly: I would get headaches as a child and decided it would be better for me not to participate in P.E. at school because I felt it would cause headaches. It became my way of life. When in reality, if I had been more physically active and developed that habit early on, the regular exercise would’ve helped me possibly have fewer headaches overall. These types of things are considered “modifiable” risks and also include things as obesity, stressful life events, caffeine overuse, and snoring/sleep apnea. All these things can be addressed and altered in the migraine sufferer’s life. These studies also marked how there is a direct impact to migraine sufferers, their families, productivity at work, and extra cost for health services. I feel that society’s and doctor’s attitudes need to change in regard to migraines. From these studies, I feel there is evidence to support that if there were better treatment combinations for migraine patients, involving both behavior therapy and medication, those of us with migraines could be better contributors to our families and society instead of
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Currently Dr. Correia is a Neuropsychologist at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center. At Brown University, he is the Neuropsychology Intern Track Coordinator, the Director of the Neuropsychology Grant Writing Seminar and works in the MRI research Facility. He is the Assistant Director at the Neuroimaging Center at Butler Hospital and is also in the Imaging Core Executive Committee there.
Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias (TACs) are highly interesting to me: This group of unilateral, excruciating primary headaches is accompanied by ipsilateral cranial autonomic symptoms and comprises of three major forms:
Rowland, Lewis P. (ed.): Merritt's Textbook of Neurology, eighth edition. Lea and Febiger. Philadelphia, 1959, pp. 630--631.
A long term condition not only brings the physical symptom of pain, but a number of psychological and social effects too. In 2014 the Department of Health recognised that the impact of having a long term condition can contribute to mental health problems like depression and anxiety (Department of Health, 2014). As well as finding ways to manage their physical symptoms, patients are encouraged to adopt acknowledge and address all of their health and wellbeing needs, in particular self-management at home and incorporating and educating the patient’s family and close friends as a support system (Kraaimaat and Evers, 2003). The suffering that a person with chronic pain endures not only impacts on their life, but also affects their family, time lost from employment and uses up precious healthcare resources.
Research Updates. University of Rochester Medical Center. November 10, 2008. National Institutes of Health. February 6, 2009. < http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/neurology/nih-registry/research/index.cfm>.
Migraine headaches affect an estimated 36 million Americans, or about 12% of the population, surpassing asthma at 8.3% (25 million) and diabetes at 7.8% (23.6 million). Migraines are much more common in women than in men--about 3 times more common. Nearly 30% of women will experience at least one episode of migraine headaches in their lifetime, most commonly in the third and sixth decades of life. However, migraines can affect anyone at any age and from any ethnic group. In addition to indirect expenses like missed work/school and lost productivity, the American Migraine Foundation estimates that migraines cost Americans more than $20 billion annually. Migraine sufferers are also more likely to experience anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, fatigue, and other pain conditions, and those who experience visual disturbances called “auras” associated with migraines are at an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. Unfortunately, there is no cure for migraines. The best treatment options available only to seek to reduce frequency of attacks or treat an attack once one has begun, and medication use is often limited by side effects and difficulty of administration. The American Migraine Foundation itself labels current treatment options “far from perfect” and concludes, “Undoubtedly, better treatments are needed.” Filling this therapeutic void is the primary objective of NuPathe Inc. (very recently acquired by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.) with Zecuity®, a sumatriptan iontophoretic transdermal system.
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Jane did explain that since the history of migraine headache had been going on for years it was going to take a while prior to seen any results but it was going to take some lifestyle changes other than the acupuncture to achieve the goal. The author left the office in a great note. Unable to gauge the results of the treatment yet but with a hopeful outlook for the future.
Our patient Ms. Blum is a 28-year-old white female who presents with symptoms of a migraine, such as waking up by a severe headache that she states is often made worse when she turns on the light. In addition, Ms. Blum presents with several factors that can trigger her migraines including her lack of sleep, her stressful life as concluded by her statement that this has been a difficult period in her life and her approaching deadline to turn in her dissertation, her weekend alcohol consumption, her menstrual cycle since she notices that a couple of days before her period starts she experiences these headaches, also she states that food doesn’t seem to appeal to her and it takes her effort to eat a meal, and her diagnosis of major depressive disorder.
Keep in mind that the migraine sufferer does not have to have any of these conditions to take them to prevent their migraines.
Marturana, A. (2016). What headaches can tell you about your health. Retrieved October 27, 2017, from www.self.com
Nowadays, it is widely known that the right and left hemisphere have different functions. The two hemispheres are equally important in a daily life basis. Nevertheless, in the 1960’s this was not common knowledge. Even though today the importance of the brain hemispheres is common knowledge, people don’t usually know to whom attribute this findings. One of the people who contributed to form a more defined picture about the brain hemispheres and their respective functions was Roger Wolcott Sperry, with the split brain research. Roger Sperry did more contributions than the split brain research, but this is his most important and revolutionary research in the psychological field. Thanks to the split brain research, Sperry proved that the two hemispheres of the brain are important, they work together and whatever side of the brain is more capable of doing the task is the hemisphere that takes the lead.
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