Along with excruciating head pain symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and sound often stop migraine sufferers in their tracks. For largely unknown reasons, migraine occurs most often in people aged 20 to 50. However, some people can experience it more frequently in childhood or in their senior years.
Women are twice as likely to develop migraine as men.
Migraine can occasionally occur in babies and young children. Though not always traceable, there is a strong likelyhood migraine is inherited. For some years, many experts believed migraine was a disorder in the brain's blood supply. But now this theory alone seems much too simple. Today's research tends to focus on broader changes within the nervous system of the brain.