Advances in understanding the mechanisms of migraine-type photophobia

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 197-202

  Noseda, Rodrigo ^a   Burstein, Rami ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CLS 649 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

exacerbation of headache by light; headache; melanopsin; nonimage forming visual pathways; posterior thalamus; trigeminovascular

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EYE PAIN; HUMAN; LIGHT; MIGRAINE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPHOBIA; RETINA; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PHOTOPHOBIA; ROD OPSINS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955628948     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0b013e3283466c8e     Document Type: Article

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