The case in summary: New research shows that migraines start at the sleep center in the brain. Changes in sleep patterns can affect whether or not you get a migraine attack. Migraine patients who sleep poorly and get little sleep react more slowly and are less perceptive. Migraine patients who get migraine attacks at night find that the body functions just as poorly the next day. Changes in sleep affect the ability to suppress brain activity differently in people with migraine. There is a difference between migraine patients who get attacks at night and those who don’t. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. Researchers from NTNU and other European universities have recently discovered that changes in sleep patterns can affect whether or not you get a migraine attack. Doctor and researcher Martin Syvertsen Mykland hopes they can contribute to new and more targeted treatment against migraines. Photo: Kim L’Orange Sørenssen / NTNU That’s according to researcher and doctor in specialization at the Neuroclinic, at Olav’s Hospital Martin Syvertsen Mykland. This is what they found out: Migraine patients who sleep poorly and get little sleep react more slowly and are less perceptive, because the attack gives them poorer cognitive function. haven’t slept a whole night. Changes in sleep seem to affect the ability to suppress brain activity differently in people with migraine. There is a difference between migraine patients who get attacks at night and those who don’t. These findings were recently presented at the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) 2024. Hit in the head Ylva Axelsen, works as a lawyer and has had migraines for three years. She is one of those people who can wake up in the night because the migraine attack is in full swing. Ylva experiences the nocturnal attacks as the very worst Photo: Marianne Ytre-Eide / news – It is absolutely the worst type of migraine attack, I would say. Because then you have no chance to discover it in advance. She says she can wake up from the feeling of someone hitting her in the head with a sledgehammer. An attack during the day can be prevented because she knows the warning. – But when you lie down and sleep, you unfortunately don’t notice it. And then you just wake up from enormous pain. – And then the attack is so well underway that it is difficult to do anything about it. Several answers Today there are no methods that can prove that a person has migraine. This is what doctor and researcher Syvertsen Mykland hopes they can do something about. Doctor and researcher Martin Syvertsen Mykland at NTNU checks the activity in his colleague Kristina Jones’s brain. Photo: Kim L’Orange Sørenssen / NTNU – We know a lot about the mechanisms behind why people get a migraine attack. And we hope that it can contribute to us developing new and more targeted treatments for migraines. Doctor and researcher at NTNU Martin Syvertsen Mykland has found the connection between sleep and migraines Photo: Morten Waagø / news In Norway there are over 800,000 Norwegians who have migraines, according to calculations from NTNU. Syvertsen Mykland says it takes a long time before migraine patients get a diagnosis and once they have, the treatment is the same for everyone. – We hope that we can make both a faster and more correct diagnosis. And perhaps in the future also differentiate between different subtypes of migraine which may have different causes and also need to be handled in different ways. Several types of migraine patients According to the new research, migraine patients cannot be seen as a group of patients who receive the same type of treatment. – Yes, it seems as if we have collected several types of migraine in the same studies. It is important to find out what possibly separates the various migraine patients from each other. Mykland says they have found that you can probably tell the migraine patients who usually have attacks at night from those who don’t. Doctor and researcher Martin Syvertsen Mykland checks the brain of his colleague Petter Moe Omland. Photo: Kim L’Orange Sørenssen / NTNU Great strain on the body Slightly reduced sleep during a migraine attack affects the brain in the same way as when a person who does not have migraine does not sleep at all. – There is a sudden change in how the brain works just when the major seizure starts. But exactly where this sudden change comes from and why it is happening is part of what we have not yet been able to show, and which we will now look at in the coming months and years. – It is important to understand why seizures occur in order to be able to help them. Ylva Axelsen says a seizure knocks her out the next day. – I feel like a twisted cloth. I am so tired that it is difficult to get up and eat dinner. This is quite a strain on the body. Do you have any health tips? Hi! Is there anything you think I should know and look into? Contact me. I write about pregnant women, mothers’ bodies, abortion and much more. I would like to listen to you. Regards, Marianne Published 15.07.2024, at 05.21
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