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...migraine study, was descended from 22 related couples, helped clarify what proportion of risk was attributable to heredity rather than environment. "What's fabulous about this study is that they were able to isolate a population so that you have a more uniform environment," notes Dr. Andrew Ahn, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) who authored an independent editorial on the Dutch study...
...every bad headache qualifies as a migraine. Instead, notes UCSF headache specialist Ahn, migraine headaches must be accompanied by at least one other symptom. "Migraine is not defined by severity but by neurological symptoms like nausea and vomiting. The presence of other neurological symptoms is the hallmark of migraine," says Ahn. The Dutch study used a battery of standardized questions plus a phone interview to minimize the chance of misdiagnosis...
...Jefferson Headache Center in Philadelphia. Sufferers should consult their primary-care physicians for treatment, since there are already very effective treatments for migraines on the market today, and some medications (like the tricyclic amitriptyline) that work well for both migraine and depression, according to UCSF headache specialist Ahn...