Reply to the topical review entitled "the phenomenon of changes in cortical excitability in migraine is not migraine-specific--a unifying thesis" by Anne Stankewitz and Arne May published in Pain 2009;145:14-7

Affiliations

¹ G.B. Bietti Eye Foundation-IRCCS, Department of Neurophysiology of Vision and Neurophthalmology, Rome, Italy "Sapienza" University of Rome, Polo Pontino - I.C.O.T., & IRCCS-Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy Headache Research Unit, University Department of Neurology & GIGA-Neurosciences, Liège University, Liège, Belgium.

Comment

Gianluca Coppola et al. Pain. 2010 May.

. 2010 May;149(2):407-408.

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.03.004. Epub 2010 Mar 21.

¹ G.B. Bietti Eye Foundation-IRCCS, Department of Neurophysiology of Vision and Neurophthalmology, Rome, Italy "Sapienza" University of Rome, Polo Pontino - I.C.O.T., & IRCCS-Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), Italy Headache Research Unit, University Department of Neurology & GIGA-Neurosciences, Liège University, Liège, Belgium.

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Comment on

Contingent negative variation in subjects at risk for migraine without aura.
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