Brain stem activation in spontaneous human migraine attacks

Nature Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 658-660

  Weiller, C ^a   May, A ^a   Limmroth, V ^a   Juptner, M ^a   Kaube, H ^a   Schayck, R V ^a   Coenen, H H ^a   Diener, H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METOPROLOL; SUMATRIPTAN;

ADULT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN STEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRAINE; PHOTOPHOBIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MIGRAINE; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; SUMATRIPTAN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029012866     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0795-658     Document Type: Article

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