Affiliation:
1. Department of Systems Neuroscience University Medical Center Hamburg‐Eppendorf Hamburg Germany
2. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy University Medical Center Hamburg‐Eppendorf Hamburg Germany
Abstract
AbstractObjectives/BackgroundAs cortical spreading depolarization (CSD) has been suggested to be the cause of migraine aura and as CSD can activate trigeminal nociceptive neurons in animals, it has been suggested that CSD may be the cause of migraine attacks. This raises the question of how migraine pain is generated in migraine attacks without aura and has led to the hypothesis that CSD may also occur in subcortical regions in the form of “silent” CSDs, and accordingly “silent auras”.MethodsIn this case study, we provide evidence for common neuronal alterations preceding headache attacks with and without aura in a male patient with migraine, who underwent daily event‐correlated functional magnetic resonance imaging of trigeminal nociception for a period of 30 days. During these days the man experienced migraine attacks with and without aura.ResultsComparing the preictal phases between both attack types revealed a common hyperactivation of the hypothalamus (p < 0.01), which was already present 2 days before the actual attack.ConclusionThe time frame of the central pathophysiological orchestration of migraine attacks, irrelevant of the presence of later aura, strongly suggests that the aura is an epiphenomenon that is unrelated and does not initiate headache attacks.
Funder
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Subject
Neurology (clinical),Neurology
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