Is chronic migraine a never-ending migraine attack?

Pain

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-240

  Schoenen, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITUATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; TRANSFORMED MIGRAINE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 78651499209     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.12.002     Document Type: Editorial

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