Whichever method is utilised-violent physical, visceral, or emotional activity-the common factor is arousal. The patient is, as it were, awoken from his migraine as if from sleep. We shall further have occasion to see, when the specific drug therapies of migraine are under discussion, that the majority of these too serve to arouse the organism from a state of physiological depression.
( Oliver Sacks )
[ Migraine ]
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