title: The movement-related potential in children with migraine and tension-type headache.
abstract: Migraine is characterized by an elevated contingent negative variation (CNV) in adults and children. In the present study the movement-related potential preceding self-initiated movements, the Bereitschaftspotential, was investigated in 30 children (mean age 12 years) who were suffering from migraine and tension-type headache and in 16 healthy age-matched controls. Children pressed a button 80 times with the right index finger while movement-related potentials were recorded from frontal and central electrodes. Whereas healthy children evidenced positive movement-related potentials at left and midline positions, children with migraine and tension-type headache showed negative movement-related potentials at midline leads without lateralization. Negativity was even more pronounced in cases of migraine with than without aura symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Psychiatry Clinics, Essen, Germany.
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sartory
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tackenberg
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003265:Contingent Negative Variation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009068:Movement; D012016:Reference Values; D018781:Tension-Type Headache / Q000503:physiopathology*