{"id":307,"date":"2017-11-13T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/?p=307"},"modified":"2018-10-09T14:53:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T18:53:32","slug":"maine-public-international-media-interview-borkum-about-migraine-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/2017\/11\/13\/maine-public-international-media-interview-borkum-about-migraine-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Public, international media interview Borkum about migraine research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mainepublic.org\/post\/umaine-researcher-theorizes-migraines-are-protective-mechanisms#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maine Public<\/a> spoke with University of Maine adjunct associate professor of psychology Jonathan Borkum about his latest research that theorizes migraine attacks may be the body\u2019s natural way of protecting and repairing itself from toxins in the brain. Borkum said migraine symptoms may have a restorative purpose, to relieve the brain from what he calls \u201coxidant stress.\u201d \u201cOxidation is a class of chemical reactions that is very common in the body, and that serve certain useful functions. But when the oxidative reactions exceed the body\u2019s ability to control them, then they cause damage, and the body needs mechanisms for correcting that damage,\u201d he said. Borkum\u2019s findings, recently published in the journal Headache, also may point to a shift in the approach to medications used to help prevent migraines, Maine Public reported. \u201cIt suggests that the next iteration of preventive medications will be things that either reduce oxidative stress or reduce that vulnerability to oxidative stress, or that deliver growth factors to the brain, essentially taking the job away from migraines,\u201d he said. The <a href=\"https:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2017\/11\/09\/health\/umaine-researcher-theorizes-that-migraines-are-protective-mechanisms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bangor Daily News<\/a> also published the Maine Public article. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbangor.com\/news\/item\/22586-study-shows-migraines-may-help-body\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WVII<\/a> (Channel 7), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medimagazine.it\/lemicrania-cervello-si-protegge-si-ripara\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medi Magazine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/psylex.de\/neurologische-krankheiten\/migraene\/oxidativer-stress.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psylex<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netralnews.com\/news\/kesehatan\/read\/109452\/ini.penyebab.migrain.sesungguhnya..hinda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">netralnews.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arsratio.hu\/a-migreneken-keresztul-szabadulhat-meg-az-agy-az-oxidacios-stressztol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arsratio<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/primar.sme.sk\/c\/20677393\/ako-kasel-ci-horucka-migrena-by-mohla-telo-chranit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SME Primar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/zdrowie.pap.pl\/byc-zdrowym\/zagadka-migreny-wyjasniona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serwis Zdrowie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalinsider.ru\/news\/uchenye-migren-ehto-zashhitnaya-reakciya-mozga-na-okislitelnyjj-stress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical Insider<\/a> also reported on Borkum\u2019s research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Public spoke with University of Maine adjunct associate professor of psychology Jonathan Borkum about his latest research that theorizes migraine attacks may be the body\u2019s natural way of protecting and repairing itself from toxins in the brain. Borkum said migraine symptoms may have a restorative purpose, to relieve the brain from what he calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"9","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":9,"label":"Research"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":9,"name":"Research","slug":"research","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":9,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":63,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":9,"category_count":63,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Research","category_nicename":"research","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}