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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-1-25
pubmed:abstractText
The way in which medication overuse transforms episodic migraine into chronic daily headache is unknown. To search for candidate brain areas involved in this process, we measured glucose metabolism with 18-FDG PET in 16 chronic migraineurs with analgesic overuse before and 3 weeks after medication withdrawal and compared the data with those of a control population (n = 68). Before withdrawal, the bilateral thalamus, orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), anterior cingulate gyrus, insula/ventral striatum and right inferior parietal lobule were hypometabolic, while the cerebellar vermis was hypermetabolic. All dysmetabolic areas recovered to almost normal glucose uptake after withdrawal of analgesics, except the OFC where a further metabolic decrease was found. A subanalysis showed that most of the orbitofrontal hypometabolism was due to eight patients overusing combination analgesics and/or an ergotamine-caffeine preparation. Medication overuse headache is thus associated with reversible metabolic changes in pain processing structures like other chronic pain disorders, but also with persistent orbitofrontal hypofunction. The latter is known to occur in drug dependence and could predispose subgroups of migraineurs to recurrent analgesic overuse.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1460-2156
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
129
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
543-50
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Analgesics, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Cerebellum, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Chronic Disease, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Data Interpretation, Statistical, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Drug Therapy, Combination, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Fluorodeoxyglucose F18, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Frontal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Headache, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Magnetic Resonance Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Migraine Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Positron-Emission Tomography, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Radiopharmaceuticals, pubmed-meshheading:16330505-Substance-Related Disorders
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Orbitofrontal cortex involvement in chronic analgesic-overuse headache evolving from episodic migraine.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. arnaud.fumal@ulg.ac.be
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't