Tuesday, September 29, 2009

How Long Can You Keep Sausage Out

headaches even if you do not have a visual disturbance in migraine

appears today in the new October issue of Scientific American magazine Articles migraine - unfortunately no imagination by colleagues David W. Dodick and J. Jay Gargus. The title is strange. Why is liable for migraine in this image?

I think the German title is not good. Originally it was called "Why migraine strikes". And that's the point in this article. That migraine is not imagination, it should be obvious. If you ever put a different focus in the German title want, you can still have more point in this exposed spot that migraine is the most expensive neurological disease. For only the treatment costs in Germany every year 500 million euros and the costs are again more than an order of magnitude higher.

Nevertheless, the article is worth reading and well illustrated. I remember from the spectrum of science is not otherwise know.



imagination? This reminds me of Erich Kaestner's children's book dots and Anton. "After lunch, got headmistress Pogge their migraines. Migraines are headaches, even if you have none. "This is how Kästner 1931 in "dots and Anton" the common disease, afflicting about by today's estimates, one fifth of the population.

migraine without headache, as contradictory as that may sound at first, can according to the classification of International Headache Society (IHS) are actually even as a separate variant of the disease diagnosed. Kastner went to diagnostic subtleties, however, less than the characterization of punctum mother as a fine lady who cares about the welfare of children from around the world, yet forget their own daughter. Migraine was then - and unfortunately some still are - dismissed as hysteria or hypochondria. This prejudice sounds now back in the title of the above-mentioned review and of course there is also contradicted by the well-founded. But why is liable for migraine in this image?

One reason for the many misconceptions of migraine is that this public health problem scientifically was hard to access before. How to measure headache? The skepticism that migraine is due to be considered as a disease, but especially on the wide variety of symptoms that can occur in addition to the headache. The IHS is called a complex combination of symptoms. Well known are the main symptoms of migraine: Head and facial pain, and also the additional frequent autonomic side effects such as nausea and dizziness.

Another form of migraine, migraine with aura, is even less known, but more diverse. This form is diagnosed by means of accompanying neurological deficits and stimulus, that is, for example, a disturbance of sensory perception. The cause of neurological symptoms, unlike the headache with modern imaging techniques to measure. This was, for example, Hadjikhani Nouchine using functional magnetic resonance imaging. These new clinical findings are well in the now available spectrum of the science magazine described. Thus, that is, the use of imaging procedures is an essential Step towards the elucidation of the disease migraine did.

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