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01-12-2015 | Oral presentation
O043. Frequency-dependent habituation deficit of the nociceptive blink reflex in cluster headache and paroxysmal hemicrania
Authors:
Armando Perrotta, Maria Grazia Anastasio, Gianluca Coppola, Anna Ambrosini, Roberto De Icco, Giorgio Sandrini, Francesco Pierelli
Published in:
The Journal of Headache and Pain
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
The habituation phenomenon is a frequency-dependent form of non-associative learning which reflects the excitability level of both sensory and pain systems. We previously demonstrated a frequency-dependent deficit of habituation of the conventional blink reflex in cluster headache (CH)[
1]. We investigated the habituation of the trigeminal nociceptive system by studying the habituation of the late component (R2) of the nociceptive blink reflex (nBR) in a wide range of stimulation frequencies in CH and paroxysmal hemicrania (PH). …