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Comparison of visual and auditory evoked cortical potentials in migraine patients between attacks.
Afra, J.; Proietti Cecchini, A.; Sandor, P. S. et al.
2000In Clinical Neurophysiology, 111 (6), p. 1124-9
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Keywords :
Adult; Calcium Channels/physiology; Cerebral Cortex/physiology/physiopathology; Evoked Potentials, Auditory/physiology; Evoked Potentials, Visual/physiology; Female; Humans; Male; Migraine Disorders/physiopathology; Migraine with Aura/physiopathology; Migraine without Aura/physiopathology; Reference Values; Regression Analysis
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[en] OBJECTIVE: As both habituation of pattern reversal visual evoked potentials (PR-VEP) (Schoenen J, Wang W, Albert A, Delwaide PJ. Potentiation instead of habituation characterizes visual evoked potentials in migraine patients between attacks. Eur J Neurol 1995;2:115-122) and intensity dependence of auditory evoked cortical potentials (IDAP) (Wang W, Timsit-Berthier M, Schoenen J. Intensity dependence of auditory evoked potentials in migraine: an indication of cortical potentiation and low serotonergic neurotransmission? Neurology 1996;46:1404-1409) were found abnormal in migraine between attacks, we have searched for intraindividual correlations between both tests in 59 migraine patients (22 with aura [MA], 37 without aura [MO]) and in 23 healthy volunteers (HV). METHODS: Amplitude change of the PR-VEP N1-P1 was measured between the 1st and 5th block of 50 sequential averagings during continuous stimulation at 3.1 Hz. IDAP was computed from N1-P2 amplitudes of 100 averagings during stimulations at 40, 50, 60 and 70 dB SL. Amplitude-stimulus intensity function (ASF) slopes and amplitude changes between 40 and 70 dB were calculated. MO and MA differed from HV in PR-VEP amplitude change (P=0.007) and IDAP slope (P = 0.0004). RESULTS: There was no significant correlation between VEP amplitude changes and IDAP slopes, nor between the latter two and attack frequency or disease duration. A negative correlation was found between the amplitude of the first block of averaged responses and potentiation of VEP in all subject groups (P = 0.03) as well as between the amplitude of the auditory evoked potential, at 40 dB, and the percentage of amplitude increase between 40 and 70 dB in MO (P = 0.004) and MA (P = 0.007). ASF slopes and 40 dB amplitudes were significantly correlated only in the MA group (P = 0.002). These results confirm the interictal deficit of habituation in cortical processing of repetitive visual and auditory information in migraine. Since there is no intraindividual correlation between the cortical responses to these sensory modalities they are complementary tools for the study of migraine and may help to identify subgroups of patients with distinct pathophysiological mechanisms. CONCLUSIONS: The strong negative correlation between the initial amplitude of evoked potentials and their amplitude increase during subsequent averaging confirms that the response potentiation in migraine is likely to be due to a reduced preactivation level of sensory cortices.
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Neurology
Author, co-author :
Afra, J.
Proietti Cecchini, A.
Sandor, P. S.
Schoenen, Jean  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Neuro-anatomie
Language :
English
Title :
Comparison of visual and auditory evoked cortical potentials in migraine patients between attacks.
Publication date :
2000
Journal title :
Clinical Neurophysiology
ISSN :
1388-2457
eISSN :
1872-8952
Publisher :
Elsevier Science, Clare, Ireland
Volume :
111
Issue :
6
Pages :
1124-9
Peer reviewed :
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