IT SEEMS migraine is not just a pain in the head, but reflects a more general sensory problem.
Frances Abbott of McGill University in Montreal compared migraine sufferers with people who don’t get the headaches, and found that even between attacks, people with migraine are less sensitive to a light touch on any part of their skin. But they are much more sensitive to potentially painful signals such as pressure on the skin or extreme cold, as well as suffering more aches, pains and itchiness. Migraine may reflect a general problem with regulating the strength of sensory signals, she suggested…
