Blink reflexes in chronic tension-type headache patients and healthy controls

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1711-1716

  Peddireddy, Anitha ^a   Wang, Kelun ^a,b   Svensson, Peter ^a,c   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blink reflex; Chronic tension type headache; Sex related differences; Trigeminal brainstem reflexes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TENSION HEADACHE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLINKING; BRAIN STEM; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE;

EID: 69549088136     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.06.024     Document Type: Article

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