Neurophysiological tests in primary headaches.
An impressive number of studies regarding the usefulness of neurophysiological procedures in primary headaches have been performed, but some of their results are difficult to interpret. However electrophysiological methods are useful to investigate peripheral and central mechanisms underlying this disorders. Taken globally, this results argue in favour of the neuronal pathogenesis of migraine as a final result of modified brainstem inputs to the cortex and/or consequence of a functional neuronal derangement. In this paper are briefly reviewed some of the principal data nowadays reported.
Aguggia
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Neurological Department, San Giacomo Hospital, Novi Ligure (AL), Italy. aguggiamarco@tiscali.it
D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D006261:Headache / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D012018:Reflex / Q000502:physiology