Migraine Basics

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This course is part of a collaboration between Dr Geoffrey Boyce (Neurologist) and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.

According to Gutteridge and Cole (2001), 'about 20 per cent of women and 10 per cent of men experience migraine at some time in their lives, of whom about one half to two thirds will have had a migraine attack in the previous 12 months.'

Gutteridge, I. F. and Cole, B. L. (2001), Perspectives on migraine: prevalence and visual symptoms. Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 84: 56-70. doi: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2001.tb04941.x

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