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The Magic Words To Get What You Want & Why You Get Headaches

Something You Should Know

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Headaches - What Causes the Pain?

Professor Amanda Ellison is a physiologist and neuroscientist at Durham University. She's author of the book Splitting the Inside Story on Headaches. The pain comes from a widening of the blood vessels in our heads, she says. Our little pain receptors start firing off signals to our brain because we don't want them to burst as they're in our head.

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