Research suggests that males and females differ in their experience of pain, but up until now, no one knew why. In a recent study published in Brain, University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers became the first to identify functional sex differences in nociceptors, the specialized nerve cells that produce pain.
Researchers at the Comprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction found that sleep disturbances increased vulnerability to migraine attacks, but the opposite isn't true.
Two neurologists argue that the data do not support the efficacy of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) medications in men with migraine, but a third neurologist criticizes their reasoning.
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