Did you know that nearly 60 %
of migraineurs report suffering from anxiety as well?
It's estimated, though, that only 15 % to 20 %
of migraineurs experience this.
In Maleki's most recent work, presented in June at the International Headache Congress, her team imaged the brains
of migraineurs and healthy people between the ages of 20 and 65, and it made a discovery that she characterizes as «very, very weird.»
Not exact matches
Furthermore, she found that in these women, the posterior insula and the precuneus — areas
of the brain responsible for motor processing, pain perception and visuospatial imagery — were significantly thicker and more connected to each other than in male
migraineurs or in those without migraines.
The brain
of a female
migraineur looks so unlike the brain
of a male
migraineur, asserts Harvard scientist Nasim Maleki, that we should think
of migraines in men and women as «different diseases altogether.»
What's more,
migraineurs who did not have a confidant had five times the odds
of generalized anxiety disorder compared to those with at least one person to confide in; with social support being shown to play an important protective role in the mental health consequences
of other chronic pain disorders.
Being that it can take a month or even longer to become fully «keto - adapted,» and some
of the neurologically protective effects
of a KD might take longer to be established, it would be nice to see studies looking at
migraineurs who follow a KD for a longer period
of time.
Among a cohort
of adolescent
migraineurs with obesity who participated in a weight loss program, compared to those who had remission
of migraines, those whose migraines persisted had higher waist circumference, body mass index, triglycerides, and HOMA - IR, all
of which indicate worse insulin sensitivity (11).
Considering the reduced quality
of life
migraineurs experience at the mercy
of these disabling attacks and the lack
of effective preventive strategies, the KD is certainly worth trialing.
They can be tied to the start
of your period; about 60 percent
of female
migraineurs (as they're called) experience them then, due to a plunge in hormones, says Mark Green, MD, director
of headache and pain medicine at Icahn School
of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
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These data are in accordance with a previous study from our group in which the role
of attachment on children's migraine features and psychological profile were explored (14); in this previous paper, the hypothesis that a dysfunctional relationship between children and their mothers could be a vulnerability factor in young
migraineurs was suggested.
In a recent study, we evidenced a high prevalence
of ambivalent attachment style among young
migraineurs; in particular, our data showed an association between migraine features (frequency and intensity
of attacks), ambivalent attachment style, and psychological symptoms (14).
Given the high risk among young
migraineurs of developing an insecure attachment style and anxiety symptoms, which are known to impact on children / adolescents migraine severity (14), special attention should be paid to maternal alexithymic traits and mother — child interaction.