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Correlation between structural and functional changes in brain in an idiopathic headache syndrome

May, A., Ashburner, J., Buchel, C., McGonigle, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9595-6352, Friston, K. J., Frackowiak, R. S. J. and Goadsby, P. J. 1999. Correlation between structural and functional changes in brain in an idiopathic headache syndrome. Nature Medicine 5 (7) , pp. 836-838. 10.1038/10561

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Abstract

Fundamental to the concept of idiopathic or primary headache, including migraine, tension-type headache and cluster headache, is the currently accepted view that these conditions are due to abnormal brain function with completely normal brain structure1. Cluster headache is one such idiopathic headache with many similarities to migraine, including normal brain structure on magnetic resonance imaging and abnormal function in the hypothalamic grey matter by positron emission tomography2. Given the consistency of the positron emission tomography findings with the clinical presentation, we sought to assess whether the brains of such patients were structurally normal. We used voxel-based morphometry, an objective and automated method of analyzing changes in brain structure, to study the structure of the brains of patients with cluster headache. We found a co-localization of structural changes and changes in local brain activity with positron emission tomography in the same area of the brain in the same patients. The results indicate that the current view of the neurobiology of cluster headache requires complete revision and that this periodic headache is associated with a hitherto unrecognized brain abnormality in the hypothalamic region. We believe that voxel-based morphometry has the potential to change in the most fundamental way our concept of primary headache disorders, requiring a radical reappraisal of the tenet of structural normality.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Psychology
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 1078-8956
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2022 09:50
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/33261

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