Headache chronification: analysis of evoked potentials for stimulus

The study involved 24 persons with migraine without aura. Special EEG monitoring was made in all patients to identify and analyze the stimulated evoked potentials.

RESULTS

Spatial distribution of the quality of evoked potentials turns out to be more as an individual characteristic of each patient. However, comparison of scalp zones of low and high quality evoked potentials revealed significant differences between patients with rare episodic and frequent migraine attacks. Perhaps, migraine chronification in this case leads to neurophysiological cerebral changes. At the same time, no difference between patients with chronic and frequent migraine causes some concerns regarding potential transformation of frequent migraines to chronic pain in certain patients. This may be due to some neurophysiological mechanism of chronification process.

CONCLUSION

The presented method in further development can reveal a tendency towards pain chronification and contribute to early therapeutic prevention of chronic migraine.

Keywords:

headache chronification

Authors:

Parsamyan R.R.

Razumovsky Saratov State Medical University

ORCID: 0000-0002-6509-5958

Posnenkova O.M.

Razumovsky Saratov State Medical University

ORCID: 0000-0001-5311-005X

Zhuravlev M.O.

Saratov State University;
National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine

ORCID: 0000-0002-8620-1609

Selskii A.O.

Razumovsky Saratov State Medical University;
Saratov State University

ORCID: 0000-0003-3175-895X

Kiselev A.R.

National Medical Research Centre of Therapy and Preventive Medicine

ORCID: 0000-0003-3967-3950

Fisun A.V.

Razumovsky Saratov State Medical University

ORCID: 0000-0002-1967-1803

Runnova A.E.

Razumovsky Saratov State Medical University;
Saratov State University;
National Medical Research Center for Therapy and Preventive Medicine

ORCID: 0000-0002-2102-164X

Received:

02.05.2023

Accepted:

16.11.2023

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