Women who have migranes more likely to have non-dangerous brain leisons | Synopsis

Women who have migranes more likely to have non-dangerous brain leisons

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Women with migraines were more likely than those without it to have small bright spots appear on MRI, as shown.  / Courtesy of Dr.Mark C. Kruit of Leiden University Medical Center The bad news? Women who have migraines are more likely to have small brain lesions. The good news? The tiny damaged areas do not seem to have any affect on a person's cognitive ability. Researchers discovered that women who reported migraines showed a higher likelihood of having more bright spots, indicating a lesion, on their magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans compared to men and women with no history of the headaches.

Concepts:

Magnetic resonance imaging Brain Hypertension Central nervous system Neurology Brain tumor Nuclear magnetic resonance Cognition

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Dr. Deborah I. Friedman

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-0.176647	"Yes, there was progression of the lesions. On the other hand, the overall burden of the lesions is really small. It doesn't even come close to what we get concerned about with dementia and stroke risk," Friedman said. ...
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Linda Porter

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HealthCondition: migraines

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.942408

Disambiguation: DiseaseOrMedicalCondition | RiskFactorReferences:

• Migraine: dbpedia
• Migraine: freebase
• Migraine: opencyc

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Despite the scary idea that subjects have more diseased parts of their brain, researchers found no cognitive changes with more spots

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• brain
• brain lesion
• brain spots
• headache
• migraine

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Women who have migranes more likely to have non-dangerous brain leisons

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