| Cortical hyperexcitability in migraine and aversion to patterns. | |
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PMID: 22234882 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Background: Patients with migraine are averse to certain visual stimuli, such as flicker and striped patterns that evoke paroxysmal EEG activity in patients with photosensitive epilepsy. Migraineurs demonstrate a hyper-responsiveness to such stimuli, and there is debate as to whether the aversion and hyper-responsiveness are due to a hyperexcitability of the cortex similar to that in patients with photosensitive epilepsy. In these patients grating patterns with certain spatial characteristics can be epileptogenic, depending critically on their movement. If the contours of the grating drift continually, the grating is not epileptogenic, but if the contours are static or if their direction is repeatedly and rapidly reversed so as to vibrate, the grating then becomes highly epileptogenic.Methods: We compared aversion to vibrating, drifting and static gratings in migraineurs and controls. The contrast of each grating was gradually increased, but only until the participant felt discomfort, so as to obtain a contrast threshold for aversion with minimal exposure.Results: Migraineurs had lower thresholds than the control group, indicating greater aversion. For both groups the threshold was higher (aversion was lower) for static than for both types of moving gratings. The drifting gratings were more aversive than the vibrating gratings when both groups were combined.Conclusion: The findings suggest that the aversion shown by migraineurs is not attributable to a cortical hyperexcitability similar to that in photosensitive epilepsy. |
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S M Haigh; O Karanovic; F Wilkinson; A J Wilkins |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-1-10 |
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Title: Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache Volume: - ISSN: 1468-2982 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-1-11 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8200710 Medline TA: Cephalalgia Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Psychology, University of Essex, UK. |
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