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...shame, because not only are there plenty of drugs that can alleviate the often debilitating pain of migraines, but there are also whole classes of medications that can prevent them in the first place. These include beta and calcium-channel blockers that improve the flow of blood to the brain, anti-depressants that regulate levels of the brain chemical serotonin and various antiinflammatory drugs and anti-seizure medicines (epilepsy and migraines, for reasons no one yet understands, seem to have common origins...
...Wake Forest and lead researcher on the botox study, says he is not entirely sure why botox works. "It appears to relax muscles in the head, neck and jaw that when inflamed may trigger migraines," he says. But Troost adds that it also seems to interfere directly with the brain's pain-signaling mechanism...
...eighth as a fan). And after years of wrestling with the baffling question of why some nations are football winners and others simply are not, I have reduced it to a question of psychology, or sociology, or social psychology, or some sort of combination of guts and brain, attitude, style and substance. And luck and, oh yes, some football skills. For some inexplicable reason, the World Cup brings to the surface character aspects buried in the most atavistic nooks of a nation's psyche. Some people will say that this is all psychobabble and hackneyed...
Ohio State University veterinarian Michael Podell has spent the past two years infecting cats with the feline version of HIV, shooting them up with methamphetamines (commonly known as speed), cutting into their brain tissue to examine their responses and then killing and dissecting them. His goal: to explore what happens when HIV-positive humans abuse drugs. But animal-rights activists did everything they could to stop the research, and last week, when Podell announced he was quitting the project and leaving the university, they declared victory. The university says Podell had received more than a thousand protest letters...
...David B.'s ambitious approach. Combining both world and personal history, the center remains the author's older brother, Jean-Christofe, who begins having epileptic seizures at age seven. Living in France during the late 1960s, the Beauchards first try Western medicine but balk at the prospect of dangerous brain surgery. Instead they began exploring alternatives like Macrobiotics, an Asian-based system of diet and spirituality. These efforts result in short-lived successes, with the Beauchards leading increasingly isolated lives and Jean-Christofe sinking deeper into anger and illness. By the end of book one the author's parents...