%0 Journal Article
%T Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) of the visual cortex: a proof-of-concept study based on interictal electrophysiological abnormalities in migraine
%A Alessandro Vigan¨°
%A Tullia Sasso D'Elia
%A Simona Liliana Sava
%A Maurie Auv¨¦
%A Victor De Pasqua
%A Alfredo Colosimo
%A Vittorio Di Piero
%A Jean Schoenen and Delphine Magis
%J The Journal of Headache and Pain
%D 2013
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1129-2377-14-23
%X Anodal tDCS over the visual cortex is thus able to increase habituation to repetitive visual stimuli in healthy volunteers and in episodic migraineurs, who on average lack habituation interictally. Moreover, 2 weekly sessions of anodal tDCS had a significant preventive anti- migraine effect, proofing the concept that the low preactivation level of the visual cortex in migraine patients can be corrected by an activating neurostimulation. The therapeutic results indicate that a larger sham-controlled trial using the same tDCS protocol is worthwhile.
%U http://www.thejournalofheadacheandpain.com/content/14/1/23/abstract