«Unfortunately, there are no preventive therapies for any
common disorder of the human nervous system — Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia,
epilepsy — with the exception of blood pressure - lowering
drugs to reduce the likelihood of stroke,» said study author James O. McNamara, M.D., professor of neurobiology at Duke Medicine.
Additionally, migraines have several pathological features in
common with
epilepsy, and multiple anti-epileptic
drugs are effective for migraine (12).