Habituation to Pain in "Medication Overuse Headache": A CO2 Laser-Evoked Potential Study

• Published in: Headache Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 792 - 807
• Main Authors: Ferraro, Diana, Vollono, Catello, Miliucci, Roberto, Virdis, Daniela, De Armas, Liala, Pazzaglia, Costanza, Le Pera, Domenica, Tarantino, Samuela, Balestri, Martina, Di Trapani, Girolamo, Valeriani, Massimiliano
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.05.2012; Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Analysis of Variance; Biological and medical sciences; Carbon dioxide; Clinical trials; Evoked Potentials - physiology; Female; Habituation; Habituation, Psychophysiologic; Hand; Headache; Headache Disorders - etiology; Headache Disorders - psychology; Headache. Facial pains. Syncopes. Epilepsia. Intracranial hypertension. Brain oedema. Cerebral palsy; Headaches; Humans; laser-evoked potential; Lasers; Male; Medical sciences; medication-overuse headache; Middle Aged; Migraine; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Neurology; Pain; Pain Measurement; Pain perception; Psychophysics; Reaction Time - physiology; Repetition; Substance-Related Disorders - complications; Vascular diseases and vascular malformations of the nervous system; Headache; Nervous system diseases; Migraine; Carbon dioxide; medication-overuse headache; Cardiovascular disease; Cerebral disorder; Habituation; Vascular disease; Chemotherapy; Treatment; Pain; Evoked potential; laser-evoked potential; Central nervous system disease; Laser; Neurological disorder; Cerebrovascular disease

(Headache 2012;52:792‐807) Objective.— Our aim was to investigate CO2 laser‐evoked potential (LEP) habituation to experimental pain in a group of patients affected by medication‐overuse headache, with a history of episodic migraine becoming chronic, before and after treatment, consisting in acute me...