Thursday, September 9, 2010

Light Hurts Even Blind Migraine Sufferers

January 11, 2010 by Medical Dude  
Filed under Medical News

Researchers in the US believe they have discovered why light can make the pain of migraineworse, even in some blind people: they found photoreceptors in a part of the brain called the thalamus appear to process both light and pain, revealing for the first time that it is possible for neural pathways for pain and non-image-forming [...]