Volumetric Analysis of the Cerebellum with the volBrain Method in Patients with Migraine

Abstract

Migraine is a recurrent headache syndrome with a wide spectrum of symptoms. The diagnosis of migraine is mostly made retrospectively, taking into account the characteristics of the headache and other symptoms. It is not known enough how migraine headache starts and in which brain regions it occurs. It is known that changes in the excitability of brainstem nuclei affect endogenous pain mechanisms and unilateral involvement of trigeminovascular structures are effective mechanisms in migraine development. Understanding the role of the cerebellum in migraine disease is a fairly new topic in neuroscience. 19 Mıgraıne Patıents (MP) and 14 Healthy Controllers (HC) partıcıpated ın our study. For the volumetric analysis of the cerebellum, the ceres method of volbrain, which is an automatic brain volume calculation method, was used and the volumes of the cerebellum structures were obtained. SPSS 22.0 program was used for the analysis of the data and the level of significance was accepted as p