Migraine

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A moderate to severe primary headache disorder which is usually unilateral with a pulsating quality, accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting, photophobia and phonophobia.

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Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Marc D. Binder
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Göttingen, Germany
Uwe Windhorst

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(2009). Migraine. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_3502

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