Is the migrainous female brain different? Some new evidence

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2311-2313

  Guidetti, Vincenzo ^a   Lucchese, Franco ^b   Bellini, Benedetta ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE;

ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC PAIN; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; HEADACHE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; MENSTRUATION; MIGRAINE; NOCICEPTION; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRECUNEUS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84864703840     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aws191     Document Type: Note

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