{"id":100,"date":"2005-08-10T07:48:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-08-18T07:38:29","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T14:38:29","slug":"migraine-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/10\/migraine-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Migraine Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a dinner lecture last night at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverplacehotel.com\" target=\"_blank\">Riverplace Hotel<\/a> down by the waterfront here in Portland.&nbsp; Very nice hotel with a beautiful conference room.&nbsp; The lecture was on migraine headaches and the newer research that shows that it&#8217;s not entirely a vascular phnomenon as was previously thought (and as was taught to me in medical school).&nbsp; It used to be thought that the blood vessels in the brain would go through a spasming period (which could produce an aura) and then would dilate and become engorged and congested (producing the migraine).&nbsp; But new studies show that the headache actually begins before the engorgement of the vessels, and maybe that is actually a response to the headache and not the cause.&nbsp; All very interesting&#8230; and offers some insight as to why neurotransmitter modulating drugs have helped prevent migraines for a lot of people (things like the SSRI anti-depressants and some anti-epileptics like Topamax and Depakote).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; the talk was interesting and I got to enjoy a very good dinner, starting off with some great appetizers!&nbsp; I love appetizers.&nbsp; They make me smile.&nbsp; They are definitely on my list of &quot;Happy Things&quot;.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture(1).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/user_files\/Image\/email\/2005-08-10-07-48-01-1647.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture(3).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/user_files\/Image\/email\/2005-08-10-07-48-01-1349.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a dinner lecture last night at the Riverplace Hotel down by the waterfront here in Portland.&nbsp; Very nice hotel with a beautiful conference room.&nbsp; The lecture was on migraine headaches and the newer research that shows that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/10\/migraine-dinner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medschool","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}