Migraine is Associated With Altered Processing of Sensory Stimuli

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Harriott, Andrea M ^a   Schwedt, Todd J ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Functional neuroimaging; Migraine; Migraine triggers; Sensory processing

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESTING STATE NETWORK; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; LIGHT; NOISE; ODOR; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOPHOBIA; RISK FACTOR; VISUAL CORTEX;

AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; LIGHT; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NOCICEPTION; NOISE; ODORS; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHOTOPHOBIA; RISK FACTORS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84920276229     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-014-0458-8     Document Type: Review

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