CHEM 183 Lecture 3: Headaches,colds and caffeine

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 183
• Professor: Ariel Fenster

Document Summary

90% of the populations can have headaches, 10% never get headaches. treatments of headaches. 12 main types of headaches and 60 sub-types: Two main types we will look at: muscular and vascular. Caused by the tightening of muscles around the forehead and skull and neck. Often associated with stress, mostly younger people and people in urban area. This is because woman are the ones who seek more help compared to men. One cause of headache which is over publicized= tmj. Dentists say they might be able to fix the alignement of the jaw. This type of headache is caused by the dilation of the blood vessel around the skull. When you have a head each there is no pain inside the head, but around the head. The brain has no areas in the brain that is sensitive, this is why when you do an operation of the brain you (cid:449)ill ha(cid:448)e (cid:374)o pai(cid:374) (cid:449)hile (cid:455)ou"re i(cid:374)side the (cid:271)rai(cid:374).