title: Migraine. A platelet hypothesis.
abstract: This paper presents evidence for my hypothesis that the diverse features of a migraine attack, both during the prodromal and the headache phases, become explicable if migraine is caused by a primary abnormality of platelet behaviour. This hypothesis places migraine among the most common disorders of the blood.
mesh_terms: D001791:Blood Platelet Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D008995:Monoamine Oxidase / Q000097:blood; D010974:Platelet Aggregation; D012701:Serotonin / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D012701:Serotonin; D008995:Monoamine Oxidase