Increased limbic and brainstem activity during migraine attacks following olfactory stimulation.

Abstract

Migraine patients have dysfunctional cortical olfactory processing and very often report hypersensitivity and phobic symptoms to odors during acute headache attacks. However, imaging data of how the brain processes associate migraine symptoms, such as photophobia, phonophobia, or osmophobia, are rare.

Bibliografische Daten

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer5
ISSN0028-3878
StatusVeröffentlicht - 2011
pubmed 21775739