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Neurophysiology in Children and Elderlies with Migraine

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Neurophysiologic techniques have proved very useful in studying migraine patients. The main contribution of clinical neurophysiology regards the pathophysiological investigation of primary headaches. The primary headache phenotype is the result of the contribution of both genetic and environmental factors, the first being prevalent in childhood and the second in elderly. Seen from this light, it is surprising that neurophysiologic investigation has been far more often addressed to the young adulthood, while children and elderlies migraineurs have been rarely studied. While neurophysiologic studies in children and adolescents contributed to highlight some peculiarities that primary headaches show in this population, the elderly age appears to be fully neglected. In this chapter, some potentially interesting areas related to primary headache pathophysiology are presented. It will be underlined how the present knowledge in these areas would benefit from data collected also from childhood and elderly.

Keywords

  • Migraine
  • Tension-type headache
  • Children
  • Habituation
  • Evoked potentials
  • Brain maturation
  • Headache
  • Adolescents
  • Elderly
  • Migraine

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  1. Headache Centre, Division of Neurology, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

    Massimiliano Valeriani

  2. Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Massimiliano Valeriani

  3. Biomedicine, Department of Health Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Parisa Gazerani

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  2. Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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Valeriani, M., Gazerani, P. (2021). Neurophysiology in Children and Elderlies with Migraine. In: Coppola, G., Chen, WT. (eds) Neurophysiology of the Migraine Brain. Headache. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56538-1_15

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