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ReviewNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2009

Migraine as a visceral pain.

Pietro Cortelli, Pasquale Montagna

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Review in Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 47% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Migraine and trigeminal system-I can feel it coming….Current pain and headache reports · 2013
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  3. Pain as an evolutionary necessity.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2011
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pietro CortelliClinica Neurologica, Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Center for the Study of Headaches, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Via Ugo Foscolo, 7, 40123, Bologna, Italy. pietro.cortelli@unibo.it
Pasquale Montagna
University of Bologna · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Migraine is a reversible brain dysfunction characterized by pain and passive coping strategies consistent with sickness behaviour. The brain contains no pain fibres and the only way it may signal pain is through the trigemino-vascular system. Here, it is postulated that migraine is an example of genetically determined behavioural responses and that sickness behaviour, a pan-mammalian adaptive response to internal and external stressors, characterizes the migraine attacks. Sickness behaviour is manifested in withdrawal and motor quiescence, sympatho-inhibition and lethargy, in which visceral pain signals a homeostatic imbalance of the brain. The sickness behavioural response is associated to pain felt as inescapable visceral pain, and depends upon brain networks involving different brainstem, hypothalamus and forebrain regions, that encode evolutionarily conserved adaptive genetic responses. This hypothesis, still speculative, may offer a more coherent view of migraine as an adaptive biobehavioural response triggered by a threatened brain.

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AnimalsAutonomic Nervous SystemBiological EvolutionBrainHumansIllness BehaviorMigraine DisordersModels, BiologicalPain

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PMID19415420
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