ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2019
Linking Traumatic Brain Injury, Sleep Disruption and Post-Traumatic Headache: a Potential Role for Glymphatic Pathway Dysfunction.
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52 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 94 citations in OpenAlex.
- Glymphatic System a Window on TBI Pathophysiology: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Sleep, cerebrospinal fluid, and the glymphatic system: A systematic review.Sleep medicine reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Glymphatic function restored by α1-noradrenergic antagonism alleviates headache allodynia in mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Overlapping pathways of migraine and the endocannabinoid system: Potential therapeutic targets.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026Review
- Aerospace stressors and brain health in military aviators: a glymphatic-neurovascular framework.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Review
- Perceiving traumatic brain injury from glymphatic system.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Review
- A wireless device for continuous measurement of brain parenchymal resistance tracks glymphatic function in humans.Nature biomedical engineering · 2025Article
- Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Mild Repetitive Head Injury in Awake Rats: Modeling the Human Experience and Clinical Condition.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Article
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- Mendelian Randomization Analysis Identifies Causal Effects of Multi-Site Chronic Pain on Obstructive Sleep Apnea.Nature and science of sleep · 2025Article
- Accumulation of Cerebrospinal Fluid, Ventricular Enlargement, and Cerebral Folate Metabolic Errors Unify a Diverse Group of Neuropsychiatric Conditions Affecting Adult Neocortical Functions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- The choroid plexus maintains adult brain ventricles and subventricular zone neuroblast pool, which facilitates poststroke neurogenesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Neurosurgery and the glymphatic system.Acta neurochirurgica · 2024Review
- Concussion and the Sleeping Brain.Sports medicine - open · 2024Review
- Longitudinal Assessment of Glymphatic Changes Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Insights from PVS burden and DTI-ALPS Imaging.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Contribution of Direct Cerebral Vascular Transport in Brain Substance Clearance.Aging and disease · 2024Review
- The glymphatic system in migraine and other headaches.The journal of headache and pain · 2024Review
- Dynamic changes in glymphatic function in reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome.The journal of headache and pain · 2024Article
- The choroid plexus maintains ventricle volume and adult subventricular zone neuroblast pool, which facilitates post-stroke neurogenesis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Longitudinal assessment of glymphatic changes following mild traumatic brain injury: Insights from perivascular space burden and DTI-ALPS imaging.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
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Abstract
purpose of the reviewTraumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health concern in the USA and worldwide. Sleep disruption and headaches are two of the most common problems reported by patients after TBI. In this manuscript, we review the current knowledge regarding the relation between post-traumatic sleep disruption and headaches. We also describe the role of the glymphatic system as a potential link between TBI, sleep, and headaches. RECENT
findingsRecent studies show a reciprocal relation between post-traumatic sleep disruption and headaches: patients with sleep disruption after TBI report more headaches, and post-traumatic headaches are a risk factor for developing disrupted sleep. Despite this clinical association, the exact mechanisms linking post-traumatic sleep disruption and headaches are not well understood. The glymphatic pathway, a newly described brain-wide network of perivascular spaces that supports the clearance of interstitial solutes and wastes from the brain, is active primarily during sleep, and becomes dysfunctional after TBI. We propose a model where changes in glymphatic function caused by TBI and post-traumatic sleep disruption may impair the clearance of neuropeptides involved in the pathogenesis of post-traumatic headaches, such as CGRP. The relation between TBI, post-traumatic sleep disruption, and post-traumatic headaches, although well documented in the literature, remains poorly understood. Dysfunction of the glymphatic system caused by TBI offers a novel and exiting explanation to this clinically observed phenomenon. The proposed model, although theoretical, could provide important mechanistic insights to the TBI-sleep-headache association.
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