ReviewJournal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism2019
Brain functional connectivity in headache disorders: A narrative review of MRI investigations.
Review in Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04628429 (Autonomic Functions in Migraine Patients as a Function of Migraine Status and CGRP Inhibition), which is not on this map. Cited by 62 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Autonomic Functions in Migraine Patients as a Function of Migraine Status and CGRP Inhibition
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Network localization of regional intrinsic neural activity alterations in migraine and their neurochemical correlates.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Pooled it
- Imaging the brain and vascular reactions to headache treatments: a systematic review.The journal of headache and pain · 2023Pooled it
- Multi-Spatial Voxel-Scale Modulation of Acupuncture on Abnormal Brain Activity in Migraine Patients Without Aura: A Randomized Study Neuroimaging Trial.Brain and behavior · 2025Trial
- Longitudinal changes in functional connectivity and pain-induced brain activations in patients with migraine: a functional MRI study pre- and post- treatment with Erenumab.The journal of headache and pain · 2022Trial
- Plasma metabolomic signatures of migraine in 479,760 adults.iScience · 2026Article
- Kinematic analysis of multisensory integration and sensory load induced fatigue in migraine.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Cognitive Dysfunction in Migraine: Underlying Mechanisms and Clinical Implications.Current pain and headache reports · 2026Review
- Bridging the gap: molecular mechanisms, regional activity and connectivity in headache disorders.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026Review
- Establishing the link between post-concussive symptoms and brain network dysfunction: A systematic scoping review of neuroimaging evidence.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2026Article
- 5.0 T MRI reveals characteristic alterations in visual and somatomotor networks associated with migraine chronification: a single-center prospective cohort study.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Effects of acute sleep deprivation on the brain function of individuals with migraine: a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Neural correlates of pain acceptance and the role of the cerebellum: Functional connectivity and anatomical differences in individuals with headaches versus matched controls.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2025Article
- Exploring the Potential of Psychedelics in the Treatment of Headache Disorders: Clinical Considerations and Exploratory Insights.Current pain and headache reports · 2025Review
- The Burden of Analgesics Overprescription for Chronic Headache: Impacts on Patients, Healthcare System and Countries.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Review
- Association between brain resting-state functional activities and migraine: a bidirectional mendelian randomization study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Imbalanced temporal states of cortical blood-oxygen-level-dependent signal variability during rest in episodic migraine.The journal of headache and pain · 2024Article
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- Mind the Metabolic Gap: Bridging Migraine and Alzheimer's disease through Brain Insulin Resistance.Aging and disease · 2024Review
- Altered functional connectivity of brainstem nuclei in new daily persistent headache: Evidence from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Article
- fMRI-based Alzheimer's disease detection via functional connectivity analysis: a systematic review.PeerJ. Computer science · 2024Article
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Abstract
Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is used to interrogate the functional connectivity and network organization amongst brain regions. Functional connectivity is determined by measuring the extent of synchronization in the spontaneous fluctuations of blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal. Here, we review current rs-fMRI studies in headache disorders including migraine, trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, and medication overuse headache. We discuss (1) brain network alterations that are shared amongst the different headache disorders and (2) network abnormalities distinct to each headache disorder. In order to focus the section on migraine, the headache disorder that has been most extensively studied, we chose to include articles that interrogated functional connectivity: (i) during the attack phase; (ii) in migraine patients with aura compared to migraine patients without aura; and (iii) of regions within limbic, sensory, motor, executive and default mode networks and those which participate in multisensory integration. The results of this review show that headache disorders are associated with atypical functional connectivity of regions associated with pain processing as well as atypical functional connectivity of multiple core resting state networks such as the salience, sensorimotor, executive, attention, limbic, visual, and default mode networks.
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