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Mark Slee, Associate Professor, Clinical Academic Neurologist, Flinders University

What happens in my brain when I get a migraine? And what medications can I use to treat it?

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Migraine is many things, but one thing it’s not is “just a headache”.

“Migraine” comes from the Greek word “hemicrania”, referring to the common experience of migraine being predominantly one-sided.

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