Understanding Migraines: Phases, Triggers, and Symptoms

The video tutorial discusses migraines, affecting 12% of the population, with women more affected than men. It explains migraines as complex neurological disorders with four phases: premonitory, aura, headache, and postdrome. The premonitory phase involves symptoms like fatigue and food cravings, linked to the hypothalamus. The aura phase, experienced by a third of sufferers, involves visual and sensory symptoms due to cortical spreading depression. The headache phase is characterized by throbbing pain, often unilateral, linked to the trigeminal nerve. The postdrome phase involves lingering pain due to sensitization.

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