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Video imaging of migraine in the brain

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Post  Migrainegirl Fri Nov 23, 2012 7:35 pm

This is a pretty interesting article showing what a migraine looks like in the brain. See the video to see it in motion.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=23086154
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Post  living Sat Nov 24, 2012 1:57 am

Thanks for sharing that. It is really interesting...scary and interesting. Wow. The similarities between migraine and epilepsy are really obvious looking at that scan... :-/

If only the side effects weren't so dreadful, I'd be back on Topamax like a shot to slow down that cortical excitability. In the meantime, it's back to mindfulness. I am intrigued by how it's all linked up - attention, cortical excitability, autonomic inflammatory reactions...it must be a very exciting field for the researchers. I'd like to see more of those scans and see more explanation for what they think is going on - and why the visual cortex is involved with aura most of the time. I guess it's the light reactivity - and when I think of epilepsy, it's interesting that strobe lights can set it off and that can only mean involvement of the visual cortex in epilepsy too. But what sets of the other parts of the brain when we have the confusional type auras etc? Questions questions questions.

Wish they'd hurry up and find the cure.

Just found this because after looking at your link and posting my reply I decided to go searching out why I'm getting aura upon aura for the past few days. I haven't been sleeping well since Wednesday and I found one research article which suggests that the longer we're awake, the more excitable the cortex gets. Always knew sleep and migraines went together but this might be one reason why....

http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/02/07/cercor.bhs014.short?rss=1

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