ArticleHeadache2021
Subjective sensory sensitivity and its relationship with anxiety in people with probable migraine.
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- Multisensory hallucinations and other unusual sensory experiences in the context of migraine: a systematic review.Journal of neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Sensory hyperacusis as a predictor of anxiety in adolescence.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- Beyond the headache: autonomic reflex dysfunction and heightened sensory sensitivity contribute to orthostatic intolerance in migraine.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2026Article
- [Clinical application of dynamic visual acuity testing in patients with vestibular migraine].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2025Article
- Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) symptoms in gender diverse adults and their relation to autistic traits, ADHD traits, and sensory sensitivities.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Sensory Processing Difficulties and Occupational Therapy Outcomes for Functional Neurological Disorder: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2024Article
- Exploring sensory sensitivity, cortical excitability, and habituation in episodic migraine, as a function of age and disease severity, using the pattern-reversal task.The journal of headache and pain · 2023Article
- Emotional Problems in Pediatric Headache Patients.Current pain and headache reports · 2022Review
- Subjective sensory sensitivity and its relationship with anxiety in people with probable migraine.Headache · 2021Article
- Sensory sensitivity and visual discomfort are not associated with altered gamma oscillations: A test of the excitation-inhibition hypothesis.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo better characterize differences in interictal sensory experience in adults with migraine and more comprehensively describe the relevance of anxiety to these experiences.
backgroundEvidence suggests that sensitivity to sensory input may not be limited to migraine attacks but continues between them. However, there is a need to better understand whether this is the case across senses, and to clearly distinguish sensory experience from measured sensory threshold, which are not straightforwardly related. Previous literature also indicates a co-occurrence between sensory sensitivity, migraine, and anxiety, but this relationship remains to be fully elucidated.
methodsThe present cross-sectional study used online questionnaires to investigate how self-reported sensory experiences relate to migraine in a large community sample including 117 individuals with probable migraine and 827 without. Mediation analyses were also used to determine whether any relationship between migraine and sensory sensitivity was mediated by anxiety.
resultsSignificant increases in subjective reports of sensory sensitivity (d = 0.80) and sensory avoidance (d = 0.71) were found in participants with migraine. Anxiety symptoms partially mediated the relationship between subjective sensory sensitivity and migraine. Finally, visual, movement, and auditory subscales were found to provide unique explanatory variance in analyses predicting the incidence of migraine (area under the curve = 0.73, 0.69, 0.62 respectively).
conclusionSubjective sensory sensitivities are present between attacks and across senses in individuals with migraine. Anxiety symptoms are relevant to this relationship; however, sensory sensitivities appear to exist independent of this affective influence. The implications of interictal sensitivities for the daily lives of those with migraine should, therefore, be considered in clinical management wherever appropriate.
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