Cluster headache and the hypothalamus: Causal relationship or epiphenomenon?

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1255-1263

  Holle, Dagny ^a   Obermann, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

deep brain stimulation; functional imaging; headache pain; hypothalamus; pain generator; tegmentum; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TEGMENTUM; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

CLUSTER HEADACHE; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052248659     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.11.115     Document Type: Review

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