A well-defined adaptive neuro-endocrine system keeps migraine at bay in the majority of the human population as well as offers periods of relative or absolute freedom from painful attacks in migraineurs.
Not looking at the flashing lights can protect migraineurs from the attack. My PhD Thesis proving this offer. I also have scientific articles about it. I uploaded all of them to my Researchgate account. As I am a migraine patient, I have also observed that sudden air pressure changes cause migraine attacks. For example, when the clouds suddenly accumulate and the pressure drops my migraine attack starts.
Article Analysis of EEG Signals Under Flash Stimulation for Migraine...
Article Use of K-means clustering in migraine detection by using EEG...
Article Analysis of Repetitive Flash Stimulation Frequencies and Rec...
Conference Paper Comparison of sub-space based MUSIC and AR BURG methods in d...
Conference Paper Comparison of artificial neural network and support vector m...
Article Classification of multi-channel EEG signals for migraine detection
Thesis İŞARET İŞLEME TEKNİKLERİ KULLANARAK EEG İŞARETLERİNDEN MİGRE...
Problems with the neuro-endocrine system is a good answer for sure in regards to where the problem comes from. Preventing the migraines will involve excellent evaluations and taking timely action - such as avoiding bright lights - or even yawning. It seems there many individual "triggers" for migraines.
One updated source I review is the Amedeo Migrain list of articles. I'll try to copy what I received today below for all to see.
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Four-fifths of the human population does not suffer from recurrent migraine attacks, despite suffering the same form or degree of stress; also all migraine patients enjoy relative or absolute periods of painful headache-free intervals despite exposure to their regular migraine precipitants.