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Published in: The Journal of Headache and Pain 1/2013

Open Access 01-12-2013 | Letter to the Editor

Answer to comment on “sleep quality, arousal and pain thresholds in migraineurs: a blinded controlled polysomnographic study”

Authors: Morten Engstrøm, Knut Hagen, Marte Bjørk, Trond Sand

Published in: The Journal of Headache and Pain | Issue 1/2013

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Abstract

We discuss the comments on our article “Sleep quality, arousal and pain thresholds in migraineurs. A blinded controlled polysomnographic study” published in JHP 2013 Feb 14;14(1):12. We hypothesize that migraineurs need more sleep than healthy controls and more sleep than they manage to achieve. Some migraineurs probably have a decreased ability to process incoming stimuli. Increased spontaneous pain may follow either sleep restriction or sleep disturbance. A comparison of migraineurs with attack onset related to sleep, migraineurs with attack onset not related to sleep and controls will be reported in another paper.
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Metadata
Title
Answer to comment on “sleep quality, arousal and pain thresholds in migraineurs: a blinded controlled polysomnographic study”
Authors
Morten Engstrøm
Knut Hagen
Marte Bjørk
Trond Sand
Publication date
01-12-2013
Publisher
Springer Milan
Published in
The Journal of Headache and Pain / Issue 1/2013
Print ISSN: 1129-2369
Electronic ISSN: 1129-2377
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1129-2377-14-56

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