How did that research begin, and why familial hemiplegic migraine?
That was really coincidental. I still recall the day, vividly. I saw two different patients in my clinic with this syndrome called familial hemiplegic migraine, which is migraine associated with half-sided paralysis. It’s a very severe, rare subtype of migraine. And yet here were these two different patients on the same day, presumably from two different families, although both came from the very same region in the Netherlands. I was struck by that. I thought that it could not be true, that it was two different families. And it turned out that it was actually one very, very large, extensive multi-generational family.
