Generally, in the emergency department, the migraine patients are prescribed to consume dopamine receptor antagonists to provide relief during the attack . However, the relation between the dopamine sensitivity and the migraine attack in vivo is not yet established. This article reports the observations made in the study which determined the levels of dopamine during the migraine attack. A migraine has an estimated prevalence of 14.7%.
The headache attack ranks seventh among specific causes of disability due to severe pain and increased sensitivity to external stimuli. The symptoms force patients to isolate themselves till the attack recedes. Recently MRI-based studies determined that the functional and structural changes in brain regions that are not commonly associated with the sensory-discriminative processing of pain. One the regions are basal ganglia especially striatum, where…
