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01-12-2015 | Poster presentation
P020. No evidence of microstructural changes in visual network in patients with migraine with aura: a diffusion tensor tract-based spatial statistic (TBSS) study
Authors:
Antonio Russo, Francesca Conte, Laura Marcuccio, Daniele Corbo, Giuseppina Caiazzo, Alfonso Giordano, Renata Conforti, Fabrizio Esposito, Alessandro Tessitore, Gioacchino Tedeschi
Published in:
The Journal of Headache and Pain
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Migraine arises from a primary brain dysfunction that leads to episodic activation and sensitization of the trigeminovascular pain pathway. About one third of patients with migraine experiences transient neurological symptoms during attacks, so-called “aura”, among which the most common is visual aura [
1]. In our previous fMRI study, we had observed a significantly increased resting-state visual network (RS-VN) functional connectivity in patients with migraine with aura (MwA) compared to patients with migraine without aura (MwoA) during the interictal period [
2]. Nevertheless, both whole-brain and visual pathways microstructural white matter (WM) abnormalities in patients with MwA and MwoA is still under debate. …