The occipital cortex is hyperexcitable in migraine: Experimental evidence

Headache

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 469-476

  Aurora, S K ^a,c   Cao, Y ^a   Bowyer, S M ^a   Welch, K M A ^b  

^a HENRY FORD HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Magnetoencephalogram (MEG); Migraine; Occipital cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); Visual stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIGRAINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032788599     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4610.1999.3907469.x     Document Type: Article

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