Neurostimulation therapies for primary headache disorders: Present and future

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 269-276

  Magis, Delphine ^a   Jensen, Rigmor ^b   Schoenen, Jean ^a,c  

^a Centre Hospitalier Regional de La Citadelle   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Headache; Migraine; Neurostimulation; Occipital nerve; Peripheral nerve stimulation; Transcranial stimulation

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN 1 AGONIST; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE;

ANALGESIA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHRONIC CLUSTER HEADACHE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLUSTER HEADACHE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTRODE; EUPHORIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE AURA; MIOSIS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL NERVE STIMULATION; PANIC; PRIMARY HEADACHE; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SHAM PROCEDURE; SKIN INFECTION; SPHENOPALATINE GANGLION STIMULATION; SUNCT SYNDROME; SYNCOPE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREMOR; TRIGEMINAL AUTONOMIC CEPHALALGIA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HEADACHE DISORDERS, PRIMARY; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPINAL NERVES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84860703132     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0b013e3283532023     Document Type: Review

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