Headache after exposure to ‘date-rape’ drugs

SUMMARY: We report two patients who developed a prolonged featureless headache, they think after a drink was ‘spiked’. We speculate that each was exposed to scopolamine, resulting in enhanced trigeminal release of vasodilator neuropeptides, including Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP), and thus...

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Autores principales: Peatfield, Richard, Villalón, Carlos M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing AG 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3579466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23451337
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-39
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description SUMMARY: We report two patients who developed a prolonged featureless headache, they think after a drink was ‘spiked’. We speculate that each was exposed to scopolamine, resulting in enhanced trigeminal release of vasodilator neuropeptides, including Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP), and thus the headache.
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spelling pubmed-35794662013-02-26 Headache after exposure to ‘date-rape’ drugs Peatfield, Richard Villalón, Carlos M Springerplus Case Study SUMMARY: We report two patients who developed a prolonged featureless headache, they think after a drink was ‘spiked’. We speculate that each was exposed to scopolamine, resulting in enhanced trigeminal release of vasodilator neuropeptides, including Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP), and thus the headache. Springer International Publishing AG 2013-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3579466/ /pubmed/23451337 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-2-39 Text en © Peatfield and Villalón; licensee Springer. 2013 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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