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Electrophysiological and functional imaging findings of central nervous representation of copingstrategies and their impact on cognitive performance in patients chronic relapsing pain and normal subjects.

Conditions
G43.9
Migraine, unspecified
Registration Number
DRKS00022777
Lead Sponsor
Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Pending
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
60
Inclusion Criteria

Patients:
- Age: 18-40 years
- Patients must meet the diagnostic criteria of migraine with or without ICHD-3 aura
- Other types of headache may exist in addition to migraine if they can be classified differently by the patient
- Migraine episode frequency 1-14/month.
- Migraine history for at least one year. First migraine episode at age <50 years
- Headache diary kept for 3 months before and 1 month after the examinations
- Voluntary, informed consent to participate in the study
Healthy Subjects:
- Age: 18-40 years
- Voluntary, informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

Patients:
- Patients must not have any contraindications to MRI examinations.
- Patients must not have claustrophobia in need of treatment
- Patients must not be pregnant. This is ensured by a ß-HCG- test in the urine.
- Patients should be free of pain for at least 48 hours before the test. No pain medication should be taken.
- Patients should not take centrally effective migraine prophylaxis or coanalgesics (especially anticonvulsants) or centrally attenuating substances (especially opioids).
- If a migraine episode occurs in the 24 hours after the measurements, the measurement is stratified as preical.
- Patients must be free of neurological and psychiatric diseases that could affect the outcome of the study. Subclinical depressive or anxiety-related symptoms manifested in BDI and STAI are not exclusion criteria. The exclusion criterion is a higher degree of anamnestic impairment of kidney or liver function.
Test persons:
- No relevant history of episodic headache. Freedom from sporadic headaches for at least 4 weeks before measurement.
- Test persons must not have any contraindications to MRI examinations.
- Test persons must not have claustrophobia requiring treatment
- Test subjects must not be pregnant. This is ensured by a ß-HCG test in the urine.
- The test persons must be free of neurological and psychiatric diseases that could affect the outcome of the study. Subclinical depressive or anxiety-related symptoms manifested in BDI and STAI are not exclusion criteria. The exclusion criterion is a higher degree of anamnestic impairment of kidney or liver function.

Study & Design

Study Type
observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Differential changes of electrophysiological and Imaging markers of Attention and distraction under painful stimulation between the groups
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Overlap of the methods (EEG/ERPs and fMRI)
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