kitchen table hypotheses: Why We Have Headaches

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Orexin reduces pain sensation in the trigeminal nerve.

It also reduces the accompanying learning and memory effects of trigeminal injury.

So if you have less orexin you have more facial pain and less thinking ability.
Yep.

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Posted by Heidi Lindborg at 8:03 AM

Heidi Lindborg: Tucson, AZ, United States; I obsess about obsession because it seems like the best use of the pathology.
Not that I really have any choice...

I believe that the majority of mental illness is secondary symptoms of common chronic infections. I was a medical librarian, and now I just pretty much constantly research sleep disorders, depression, mania and dementia. This is where I collect my accumulating hypotheses and try to document the atrocities occurring daily in the Infection Industrial Complex.
My goal is not to convince you that my ideas are right, but to show you there is more than one way to interpret scientific data.
Update:
After fifteen years of this, I finally think I am right.

A hearty recommendation for this quirky zombie movie: Perfect Sense

"A chef and a scientist fall in love as a mysterious epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions."

Almost perfect.