Migraine: disease characterisation, biomarkers, and precision medicine

M Ashina, GM Terwindt, MAM Al-Karagholi, I De Boer… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Migraine is a disabling neurological disorder, diagnosis of which is based on clinical criteria.
A shortcoming of these criteria is that they do not fully capture the heterogeneity of migraine …

[HTML][HTML] Pathophysiology of migraine: a disorder of sensory processing

PJ Goadsby, PR Holland… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Plaguing humans for more than two millennia, manifest on every continent studied, and with
more than one billion patients having an attack in any year, migraine stands as the sixth …

Migraine and structural changes in the brain: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A Bashir, RB Lipton, S Ashina, M Ashina - Neurology, 2013 - neurology.org
Objective: To evaluate the association between migraine without aura (MO) and migraine
with aura (MA) and 3 types of structural brain abnormalities detected by MRI: white matter …

Central mechanisms of pain revealed through functional and structural MRI

KD Davis, M Moayedi - Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 2013 - Springer
MR-based brain imaging technologies provide a suite of functional and structural metrics
that can be used to test hypotheses about the CNS mechanisms underlying pain perception …

Neuroimaging of the periaqueductal gray: state of the field

C Linnman, EA Moulton, G Barmettler, L Becerra… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
This review and meta-analysis aims at summarizing and integrating the human
neuroimaging studies that report periaqueductal gray (PAG) involvement; 250 original …

Pathophysiological bases of comorbidity in migraine

C Altamura, I Corbelli, M De Tommaso… - Frontiers in human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite that it is commonly accepted that migraine is a disorder of the nervous system with a
prominent genetic basis, it is comorbid with a plethora of medical conditions. Several studies …

Altered functional magnetic resonance imaging resting‐state connectivity in periaqueductal gray networks in migraine

C Mainero, J Boshyan, N Hadjikhani - Annals of neurology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: The periaqueductal gray matter (PAG), a known modulator of somatic pain
transmission, shows evidence of interictal functional and structural abnormalities in …

Migraine is associated with an increased risk of deep white matter lesions, subclinical posterior circulation infarcts and brain iron accumulation: the population-based …

MC Kruit, MA van Buchem, LJ Launer… - …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous studies have suggested that migraine is a risk factor for brain lesions, but
methodological issues hampered drawing definite conclusions. Therefore, we initiated the …

tDCS‐induced analgesia and electrical fields in pain‐related neural networks in chronic migraine

AF DaSilva, ME Mendonca, S Zaghi… - … : The Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective.—We investigated in a sham‐controlled trial the analgesic effects of a 4‐week
treatment of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the primary motor cortex in …

Trigeminal nociceptive transmission in migraineurs predicts migraine attacks

A Stankewitz, D Aderjan, F Eippert, A May - Journal of Neuroscience, 2011 - jneurosci.org
Several lines of evidence suggest a major role of the trigeminovascular system in the
pathogenesis of migraine. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we …