Introduction We investigated whether interictal thalamic dysfunction in migraine without aura (MO) patients is a primary determinant or the expression of its functional disconnection from proximal or distal areas along the somatosensory pathway. Methods Twenty MO patients and twenty healthy volunteers (HVs) underwent an electroencephalographic (EEG) recording during electrical stimulation of the median nerve at the wrist. We used the functional source separation algorithm to extract four functionally constrained nodes (brainstem, thalamus, primary sensory radial, and primary sensory motor tangential parietal sources) along the somatosensory pathway. Two digital filters (1-400 Hz and 450-750 Hz) were applied in order to extract low- (LFO) and high- frequency (HFO) oscillatory activity from the broadband signal. Results Compared to HVs, patients presented significantly lower brainstem (BS) and thalamic (Th) HFO activation bilaterally. No difference between the two cortical HFO as well as in LFO peak activations between the two groups was seen. The age of onset of the headache was positively correlated with HFO power in the right brainstem and thalamus. Conclusions This study provides evidence for complex dysfunction of brainstem and thalamocortical networks under the control of genetic factors that might act by modulating the severity of migraine phenotype.

Impaired brainstem and thalamic high-frequency oscillatory EEG activity in migraine between attacks / Porcaro, Camillo; Di Lorenzo, Giorgio; Seri, Stefano; Pierelli, Francesco; Tecchio, Franca; Coppola, Gianluca. - In: CEPHALALGIA. - ISSN 0333-1024. - 10:37(2017), pp. 915-926. [10.1177/0333102416657146]

Impaired brainstem and thalamic high-frequency oscillatory EEG activity in migraine between attacks

SERI, Stefano;PIERELLI, Francesco;COPPOLA, GIANLUCA
2017

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Introduction We investigated whether interictal thalamic dysfunction in migraine without aura (MO) patients is a primary determinant or the expression of its functional disconnection from proximal or distal areas along the somatosensory pathway. Methods Twenty MO patients and twenty healthy volunteers (HVs) underwent an electroencephalographic (EEG) recording during electrical stimulation of the median nerve at the wrist. We used the functional source separation algorithm to extract four functionally constrained nodes (brainstem, thalamus, primary sensory radial, and primary sensory motor tangential parietal sources) along the somatosensory pathway. Two digital filters (1-400 Hz and 450-750 Hz) were applied in order to extract low- (LFO) and high- frequency (HFO) oscillatory activity from the broadband signal. Results Compared to HVs, patients presented significantly lower brainstem (BS) and thalamic (Th) HFO activation bilaterally. No difference between the two cortical HFO as well as in LFO peak activations between the two groups was seen. The age of onset of the headache was positively correlated with HFO power in the right brainstem and thalamus. Conclusions This study provides evidence for complex dysfunction of brainstem and thalamocortical networks under the control of genetic factors that might act by modulating the severity of migraine phenotype.
2017
high-frequency oscillations (HFOs); brainstem; electroencephalography (EEG); functional source separation (FSS); migraine; thalamus
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Impaired brainstem and thalamic high-frequency oscillatory EEG activity in migraine between attacks / Porcaro, Camillo; Di Lorenzo, Giorgio; Seri, Stefano; Pierelli, Francesco; Tecchio, Franca; Coppola, Gianluca. - In: CEPHALALGIA. - ISSN 0333-1024. - 10:37(2017), pp. 915-926. [10.1177/0333102416657146]
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