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Michael Oshinsky, Ph.D., assistant professor of Neurology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and a member of the Jefferson Headache Center team, along with Christina Maxwell, a Ph.D. student in the Neuroscience program, Jefferson College of Graduate Studies, compared the effects of alcohol on rats suffering from recurrent migraines with those that did not get headaches.
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"Our results suggest that dehydration or impurities in alcohol are not responsible for hangover headache," Dr. Oshinsky said.
"Since these rats were sufficiently hydrated and the alcohol they received contained no impurities, the alcohol itself or a metabolite must be causing the hangover-like headache.
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