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Brain excitability in migraine: Hyperexcitability or inhibited inhibition?

Filippo BrighinaBrigida FierroValeriani Massimiliano

subject

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicinemigraine disordersNeurologyMigrainebusiness.industryMedicineNeurology (clinical)Pharmacologybusinessmedicine.disease

description

While migraine has been considered for a long time a disease of the head vascular structures, it has been more and more evident that the involvement of the cerebral cortex has a primary role in the cascade of events which trigger the migraine attacks. Neurophysiological studies gave an important contribution to our knowledge of the mechanisms underlying the migraine disease

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2007.08.016