Adaptive mechanisms in migraine : a comprehensive synthesis in evolution : breaking the migraine code / / Vinod Kumar Gupta [editor]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966491903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009
• ISBN: 1-61728-123-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GuptaVinod Kumar <1972->
• Disciplina: 616.8/4912
• Soggetti: Migraine
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Background: what ails migraine research? -- Quest for a new research paradigm for migraine: why and how -- Nausea/vomiting-vasopressin nexus in migraine -- Magnesium depletion, migraine, and cellular adaptation -- Stress, brain autonomic function, BBB, and migraine -- Pupil, eyelid, and migraine -- Prolactin, melatonin, stress, and migraine -- Evoked potentials, migraine, and arousal -- The platelet-serotonin-brain neuronal connection: milestone or millstone?
• Sommario/riassunto: Elucidation of adaptive physiological mechanisms in migraine can rationalise important epidemiological, clinical, and pharmacological features and sow the seeds for evolution of an integrative synthesis which process, in turn, might herald the creation of a comprehensive thought framework and research vision for migraine.