Headache 

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Highlights from the June 2014 issue:

The relation between migraine, typical migraine aura and ‘visual snow’
Schankin, Christoph (contact); maniyar, farooq; Sprenger, Till; Chou, Denise; Eller, Michael; Goadsby, Peter
Patients with ‘visual snow’ suffer from continuous TV-static-like vision. In this prospective study, the prevalence of other visual symptoms, tinnitus, and migraine was assessed in patients with visual snow, and [18F]-FDG PET was utilized to identify areas with increased brain metabolism in patients with visual snow compared to healthy controls.

Wine and headache
Krymchantowski, Abouch
For hundreds of years, wine has been considered a migraine trigger. Despite this assumption, this systematic review of the literature found that there are few published papers investigating wine as a migraine trigger. Existing evidence suggests that red wine triggers migraines in less than 30% of migraineurs. The mechanisms by which red wine triggers migraine are uncertain, but might involve phenolic flavonoid radicals and interference with serotonin metabolism.
 

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