Neuroimaging in the pre-ictal or premonitory phase of migraine: a narrative review by Nazia Karsan, Peter J. Goadsby

“…Main body The ability to scan repeatedly a patient without radiation and with non-invasive imaging modalities, as well as the recognition that human experimental migraine provocation compounds, such as nitroglycerin (NTG) and pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP), can trigger typical premonitory symptoms (PS) and migraine-like headache in patients with migraine, have allowed feasible and reproducible imaging of the premonitory phase using NTG. …”
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