Patients with migraine may have inherited the predisposition for this lowered threshold. ... Wolff et al believed that intracranial vasoconstriction is responsible for the aura of migraine and that the subsequent rebound vasodilatation and activation of perivascular nociceptive nerves resulted in...
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