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Botox could be used to treat patients suffering from low cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) headaches, according to new research.

Low CSF pressure headaches are caused by an internal spinal fluid leak. This spinal injury causes pressure headaches which can have a disabling effect on sufferers, due to the pain caused as the fluid leaks out and the brain sags.

A Mayo Clinic case study has now indicated that Botox could be used to relieve the pain after one patient received Botox for three years with positive results. The treatment was found to stave off the pain for three months at a time.

"We had been using Botox for several years for treatment of migraine and had been successful in many patients. And because we really didn't have anything else to offer her, we gave her the Botox," said neurologist Dr Cutrer, who treated the patient.

Conditions such as this one could be further understood after the Allen Institute for Brain Sciences developed the world's first anatomically and genomically comprehensive human brain map.

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