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The contribution of fMRI to elucidate the pathophysiology of primary headaches

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Abstract

Understanding the pathophysiology of head pain is an essential prerequisite for unraveling enigmas related to the clinical management of primary headaches. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is now sufficiently sophisticated to provide data for testing hypotheses about the pathophysiology of chronic and primary headache forms generated from clinical and other observations. The aim of this paper is to assess the use of fMRI in headache pathophysiology considered an imbalance between behavioral and pain responses.

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I thank Don Ward for helpful in the preparation of this article.

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An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10072-011-0706-1

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Bussone, G. The contribution of fMRI to elucidate the pathophysiology of primary headaches. Neurol Sci 32 (Suppl 1), 41–43 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-011-0557-9

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