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Can Migraine Cause Anxiety

Health Encyclopedia: Headaches: Tension Introduction

Introduction

Most people are familiar with headaches, the all too common affliction marked by throbbing, piercing, or vise-like pain around much or a part of the head. There are many different kinds of headaches, and they range from being an infrequent annoyance to a persistent, severe, and disabling medical condition.

The brain itself is insensitive to pain, so that is not what hurts when a headache arises. The pain, instead, occurs in the following locations:

The tissues covering the brain
The att...

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...loud noiseDehydrationHormone changes during the menstrual cycleLack of food or sleepNicotineStress and anxietyWeather changes While research does not directly link migraines to... Read more »

Food Triggers and Migraine

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"Overcoming Headaches and Migraines": A Review

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Tension Headaches

...mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} Anxiety is characterized by extreme worrying or fear and is... Read more »

Headaches: Tension: Causes

...Some studies suggest that patients with chronic tension-type headaches have more general feelings of anxiety or depression and are less able to express their emotions. A 2001 study indicated that... Read more »

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