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Thursday, October, 29, 2009

What Causes A Migraine ?

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What are the causes of migraine?

By Ask the Clinician Health Expert

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What are the causes of migraine?

Please help. Need to know what are the causes of migraine? Is there other way to cure this? kahleen.
 

 

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Dear kahleen;

 

Entire books have been written on this topic. Migraine is a genetic neurological disease. The causes are genetics and overactive neurons in the brain that respond to physiological triggers that start a Migraine attack. That starts a cascade of events that include changing levels of neurotransmitters such as sero...

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