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Health Encyclopedia: Headaches: Cluster Causes

Causes


Cluster headaches, like migraines, are likely due to an interaction of abnormalities in the blood vessels and nerves that affect regions in the face.

Abnormalities in the Hypothalamus

Evidence strongly suggests that abnormalities in the hypothalamus, a complex structure located deep in the brain, may play a major role in cluster headaches. Advanced imaging techniques have shown that a specific area in the hypothalamus is asymmetrical in these patients and is activated during a cluster headac...

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Health Guide

Headaches: Cluster: Diagnosis
In two surveys, patients reported a delay of 1 - 6 years in the diagnosis of their headaches. In one of the surveys, migraine-like symptoms (light and sound sensitivity and nausea) were... Read more »
Headaches: Tension: 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... Read more »
Headaches: Tension: Causes
CausesThere does not appear to be a single cause of chronic tension-type headache. Many factors are likely involved.Muscle Contractions and TendernessOne of the most popular theories on the cause of... Read more »
Headaches: Cluster: Cluster Headaches
Cluster HeadachesCluster headaches are among the most painful, and least common, of all headaches. The pain can be so excruciating that they are sometimes referred to as suicide headaches." Their... Read more »
Migraine Headaches Introduction
The pain from a headache does not start from inside the brain. (The brain itself can not feel pain.) Instead, headache pain begins in one or more of the following locations:The tissues... Read more »

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