“So concussions or brain injuries can actually trigger migraines and vestibular migraines. And so I suspect that people who are more prone to vestibular migraine are more prone to getting migraine if you have the genetics for it. Taking a good hit to the head or being in contact sports can trigger the migraines or the vestibular migraines to start for sure.”
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This Q&A is an excerpt from the Vestibular Health Summit Sessions
Shin C. Beh, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. A neurologist, Dr. Beh is the founding Director of UT Southwestern’s Vestibular Neurology and Neuro-Visual Disorders Clinic and serves on the faculty of the Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Clinic. Dr. Beh’s research interests include vestibular migraine, and various other neuro-otologic disorders. He has published a number of scholarly articles and book chapters and presented nearly 40 abstracts and invited lectures related to his specialty. Dr. Beh serves as a reviewer for journals that include JAMA Neurology; Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry; Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders; The Neurologist; and Neurodegenerative Disease Management.
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