nbsp (c) What of the future?
Much like the diagnosis of migraine where nothing is absolute, no drug treatment seems to work for everyone. Current research is aimed at trying to determine why this is the case with the hope of reducing to as small as possible the number of patients who cannot be successfully treated. In the area of prevention work goes on to try and determine which receptor site needs to be targeted so that attack frequency can be reduced. What is clear is that it is not the same one that is involved in stopping attacks and there are two useful areas being examined. Lastly, why do people get migraine? This is the most tantalising question of all. The clue seems to be in the fact that migraine seems to have some familial or genetic aspects. It would seem that the sufferer inherits a tendency to have the attacks. We and others are currently hard at work trying to establish what the nature of the genetic aspect is because it is likely that this will tell us what exactly is going on and why 9% of adults
