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The American scientists from Massachusetts hospitals have conducted a research and came to a conclusion, that the brain of people suffering from migraines, differs from a brain of the healthy person.

Researchers have compared results of brain scanning of healthy people and those who suffered from migraines. Patients with migraines had headache attacks at least 4 times a month within 20 years.

People, suffering from migraines, had 21 % thicker somatosensory cortex- the area of a brain responsible for sensation of a pain, temperature and tactile sensitivity.

Scientists believe that such change of brain structure is explained by long-term frequently repeating hyperstimulation of sensitive areas which leads to thickening of a cortex. There is also other theory according to which thickened somatosensory cortex can be an evidence of susceptibility to migraines.

It is necessary to note, that thickness of a cortex can vary in result of some other pathologies.