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01-12-2014 | Meeting abstract
EHMTI-0375. Central mechanisms of migraine improvement with ketogenic diet: an evoked potentials study
Authors:
C Di Lorenzo, G Coppola, M Bracaglia, D Di Lenola, F Pierelli
Published in:
The Journal of Headache and Pain
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Special Issue 1/2014
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Excerpt
Ketogenic diet (KD) is a dietetic regimen that mimics fasting in producing ketone bodies, which seems to have a potential role in treating migraine. From animal and human models emerges that KD might affects CNS at multiple levels: it is able to normalize cortical dysexcitability and to reduce cortical spreading depression velocity of propagation, which mechanisms are potentially of interest in migraine pathophysiology. …