Microstructural and network abnormalities in headache

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 353-359

  Ellerbrock, Isabel ^a   Engel, Andreas K ^a   May, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

connectivity analysis; cortical thickness; migraine; structural MRI; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC TENSION HEADACHE; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIGRAINE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RESTING STATE NETWORK; REVIEW; STIMULUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER LESION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84880731291     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0b013e3283633714     Document Type: Review

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