Migraine is a primary headache disorder characterized by a unilateral, throbbing, pulsing
headache, which lasts for hours to days, and the pain can interfere with daily activities. It …

With regard to the varied, nonculinary uses of hot pepper, there is apparently little new under
the sun. For example, Incas burned dried chili peppers to combat the invading Spaniards by …

The spinal dorsal horn receives input from primary afferent axons, which terminate in a
modality-specific fashion in different laminae. The incoming somatosensory information is …

Nervous connections between the trigeminal ganglia and cerebral blood vessels have
recently been identified in experimental animals and have been termed the …

The efferent connections of the medial (MHb) and lateral (LHb) habenular nuclei in the rat
were demonstrated autoradiographically following small injections of tritiated amino acids …

The third edition of this monograph continues to have the goal of providing an overview of
current thought about the spinal cord mechanisms that are responsible for sensory …

The tachykinin peptide family certainly represents one of the largest peptide families
described in the animal organism. So far, more than 40 tachykinins have been isolated from …

Movement, the fundamental component of behavior and the principal extrinsic action of the
brain, is produced when skeletal muscles contract and relax in response to patterns of action …

Migraine treatment has reached a new era with the development of drugs that target the
trigeminal neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) or its receptor. The CGRP …

The expression'painful'can be used to describe both an embarrassing moment and a cut on
the finger. An explanation for this dichotomy can be found in the convoluted history of ideas …