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Tiny Blockages in The Brain’s Plumbing Could Be Causing Migraines : ScienceAlert
No one really knows the cause of migraine, but a number of studies have begun to piece together the mechanisms behind these headaches from hell. There’s evidence that short strings of amino acids called calcitonin gene-related peptides (CGRP) could be the evil puppeteers behind painful migraine attacks, with treatments targeting CGRP already on the market….