Migraine is unlike other headaches and not linked to blood flow. Instead it stems from signal molecules housed in the the fifth cranial nerve, the trigeminal nerve. The target molecule is a pain receptor and it's motion can be dampened by a second molecule (CGRP) which allows a couple other types to hitch onto the pain target. Watch the 3D visualization. The whole sequence is now understood pretty much at the level of an individual atom. Next up is a fix to break the chain that binds pain messengers to the target molecule. Soon! (Below is an image, not a video, because it's in PIP format. The link has the PIP video.)
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