Lack Of REM Sleep Linked To Chronic Migraines
A new study suggests that a lack of sleep, as well as a lack during sleep of the dreaming phases known as REM, can trigger migraines and increase the risk of chronic migraines.
Rapid Eye Movement or REM phases of sleep are those brief periods during which we experience dreaming. Regularly losing sleep, or sleeping but without REM periods – as often occurs when alcohol, drugs or stress are involved – increases the expression, or activity, of certain proteins related to lowering our threshold of pain.
The proteins are known as p38, PKA, and P2X3 and lower expression of them can cause the pain of migraine. The study will be presented in Los Angeles to the attendees of the American Headache Society’s annual scientific meeting on one of the days between June 24 and 26. It has not been published and details are not yet available.
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