Sentences with phrase «as migraine with aura»

A malfunctioning pump in brain cells results in severe neurological conditions such as migraine with aura, muscle spasms or one - sided paralysis (hemiplegia).

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Reporting in today's issue of Neurology, Stephen Silberstein and his colleagues at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia say that women are twice as likely to experience migraine without aura — the type most often associated with menstruation — during the first two days of their cycle.

When it came to migraine with aura, relatives of people who suffered from the condition were four times as likely as the general population to experience this kind of headache — and six times as likely as relatives of the people who had never had migraines.

The study found that people with migraine with aura were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson's than people with no headaches.

The researchers calculated that 77 % and 96 % of a person's susceptibility to migraines with and without aura, respectively, is due to genetic rather than environmental factors (which is known as heritability).