Why do some people get headaches from drinking red wine?

Not everyone feels fine after red wine, and a flavanol may be the culprit

23-Nov-2023 - A red wine may pair nicely with the Thanksgiving meal. But for some people, drinking red wine even in small amounts causes a headache. Typically, a “red wine headache” can occur within 30 minutes to three hours after drinking as little as a small glass of wine. What in wine causes headaches? In a ...

The Jung Foundation for Science and Research awards the 2023 Jung Prize for Medicine to Özlem Türeci

Stefan Rose-John receives a prize for his life’s work and Achmed Mrestani is awarded as young researcher

04-May-2023 - New treatments against cancer, autoimmune diseases, migraine and epilepsy – these are some of the areas covered by the research results of this year’s award winners from the Jung Foundation for Science and Research. With their groundbreaking work, Professor Özlem Türeci, Professor Stefan ...

Why migraine frequently occurs during menstruation

Women suffer migraines at triple the rate that men do

24-Feb-2023 - When women suffer migraine attacks, it is often just before or during their monthly period. A team of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has now identified a possible explanation. According to their study, published in the journal Neurology, women who experience migraines have ...

Digital Therapeutic Against Migraine Closes New Financing Round

2021 has been a year of accomplishment for the Berlin-based startup Newsenselab

22-Dec-2021 - Berlin Startup Newsenselab is rounding out a year of successes with their most recent financing round. Headlining the list of achievements is “M-sense Migräne”, a digital health application (DiGA) eligible to be reimbursed by statutory health insurances in Germany. With the results of a ...

Genetic Malfunction of Brain Astrocytes Triggers Migraine

Cingulate cortex may represent a critical hub in the disease

25-Jun-2020 - Neuroscientists of the University of Zurich shed a new light on the mechanisms responsible for familial migraine: They show that a genetic dysfunction in specific brain cells of the cingulate cortex area strongly influences head pain occurrence. Migraine is one of the most disabling disorders, ...

Your brain with a migraine

28-Jun-2018 - When migraine sufferers see the tell-tale squiggly lines, light flashes and blind spots of a migraine aura, they prepare for a migraine. When researchers see the brain image of an aura, they try to figure out what causes it and if there is a way to stop the start of the migraine. Now an ...

Potential source of gender differences in migraines discovered

24-Apr-2018 - Of the more than 38 million Americans who experience migraine headaches, 28 million are women. Compared to men, women also experience more frequent and severe migraines and don't respond as well to drug treatments. Findings from a new study conducted in rats reveal that females may be more ...

Even Open-Label Placebos Work – if They Are Explained

28-Sep-2017 - For some medical complaints, open-label placebos work just as well as deceptive ones. As psychologists from the University of Basel and Harvard Medical School report in the journal Pain, the accompanying rationale plays an important role when administering a placebo. The successful treatment of ...

Migraine breakthrough could lead to improved drugs

18-Nov-2016 - A PhD student at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China is carrying out work that could have a significant impact on drugs developed to prevent and treat migraines. Fan Bu's doctoral project has revealed a previously unknown mechanism, involving a protein within brain cells, which ...

Unconventional natural gas wells associated with migraine, fatigue

26-Aug-2016 - New research suggests that Pennsylvania residents with the highest exposure to active natural gas wells operated by the hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") industry are nearly twice as likely to suffer from a combination of migraine headaches, chronic nasal and sinus symptoms and severe ...