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How to Stop Headaches Using Science-Based Approaches

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The Origins of Aura and Photophobia

Aura is associated with a back to front. spreading depression, like a wave of lowering levels of electrical excitability. People will get the sense that kind of seeing something in their periphery of their vision then they'll start feeling something around them. There's a sense that something's about to happen. Photophobia originates from a specific set of neurons in the eye which respond most robustly to bright blue light or other short wavelength light.

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