Is Depression And Anxiety Genetic?
For quite some time, we've had research showing Migraine disease and depression to frequently be comorbid diseases -- occurring together, but neither causing the other. Whereas the prevalence of depression in the general population has been estimated at 17%, among Migraineurs, that figure jumps to a startling 47% in some studies. It has seemed obvious that there must be a link between the two diseases, but we didn't know what that link was.
Conversely, studies have shown patients with ...
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