Washington, Feb 8 : Biologists have suggested that studying how locusts react to stress may be the key to understand the cause behind human migraines.
They also insist that this knowledge may lead to improved migraine drugs for people, and thus help in reducing its painful effects.
Mel Robertson, Biology professor at the Queen’s University in Canada, is making use of insect models to examine how breathing is controlled by the nervous system when stress is induced through high temperatures and oxygen deprivation.