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ReviewHeadache2017

Neuropeptides and Neurotransmitters That Modulate Thalamo-Cortical Pathways Relevant to Migraine Headache.

Rodrigo Noseda, David Borsook, Rami Burstein

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Review in Headache, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Rodrigo NosedaDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
David BorsookDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Rami BursteinDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USCenter for Pain and the Brain · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Photophobia during migraine: sensory, autonomic and emotional responses to lightR37NS079678 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI BURSTEIN, RAMI · 2012 to 2018
$3.1M
Cortical Mechanisms of Headache: Beyond CSDR01NS094198 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI BURSTEIN, RAMI · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
Migraine pathophysiology: neural basis of photophobiaR01NS069847 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI BURSTEIN, RAMI · 2010 to 2014
$1.9M
Neural Basis of Occipital HeadacheR21NS090254 · NINDS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI NOSEDA, RODRIGO · 2015 to 2016
$479k
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS069847NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS094198NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS090254NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS079678
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dynamic thalamic regulation of sensory signals allows the cortex to adjust better to rapidly changing behavioral, physiological, and environmental demands. To fulfill this role, thalamic neurons must themselves be subjected to constantly changing modulatory inputs that originate in multiple neurochemical pathways involved in autonomic, affective, and cognitive functions. This review defines a chemical framework for thinking about the complexity of factors that modulate the response properties of relay trigeminovascular thalamic neurons. Following the presentation of scientific evidence for monosynaptic connections between thalamic trigeminovascular neurons and axons containing glutamate, GABA, dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, histamine, orexin, and melanin-concentrating hormone, this review synthesizes a large body of data to propose that the transmission of headache-related nociceptive signals from the thalamus to the cortex is modulated by potentially opposing forces and that the so-called 'decision' of which system (neuropeptide/neurotransmitter) will dominate the firing of a trigeminovascular thalamic neuron at any given time is determined by the constantly changing physiological (sleep, wakefulness, food intake, body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure), behavioral (addiction, isolation), cognitive (attention, learning, memory use), and affective (stress, anxiety, depression, anger) adjustment needed to keep homeostasis.

Indexed as

AnimalsCerebral CortexHumansMigraine DisordersNeural PathwaysNeuropeptidesNeurotransmitter AgentsSynaptic TransmissionThalamusNeuropeptidesNeurotransmitter Agentsanxietydopaminefood intakeglutamatehistaminemelanin-concentrating hormonenoradrenalineorexinserotoninsleepstress

Identifiers

PMID28485844
PMCPMC5424619
OpenAlexW2613194071

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