Neuromodulation for intractable headaches

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Hassanzadeh, Roya ^a   Jones, Jeremy C ^b   Ross, Edgar L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic migraine; Cluster; Deep brain stimulation; Headache; Intractable; Neuromodulation; Neurostimulation; Occipital neuralgia; Peripheral nerve stimulation; Refractory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRODE; FACE PAIN; GENERATOR; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR; IMPLANTATION; INTRACTABLE HEADACHE; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE STIMULATOR; NEURALGIA; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPHENOPALATINE GANGLION STIMULATION; SUPRAORBITAL NERVE STIMULATION; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; TREATMENT INDICATION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CRANIAL NERVE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; HEADACHE AND FACIAL PAIN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEADACHE; REVIEW; SECONDARY HEADACHE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN MAPPING; CRANIAL NERVES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FACIAL PAIN; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HEADACHE DISORDERS, PRIMARY; HEADACHE DISORDERS, SECONDARY; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84896732949     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-013-0392-1     Document Type: Article

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