Answer to comment on “sleep quality, arousal and pain thresholds in migraineurs: a blinded controlled polysomnographic study”

The Journal of Headache and Pain

Letter to the Editor

Trond Sand¹  Morten Engstrøm¹  Knut Hagen²  Marte Bjørk³ 

[1] Department of Clinical Neurosciences, MTFS, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7489, Trondheim, PB 8905, Norway;Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, St. Olavs Hospital, N-7006, Trondheim, Norway;Department of Clinical Neurosciences, MTFS, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7489, Trondheim, PB 8905, Norway;Norwegian National Headache Centre, St. Olavs Hospital, N-7006, Trondheim, Norway;Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital, N-5021, Bergen, Norway;Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, N-5021, Bergen, Norway;

关键词: Migraine;    Sleep;    Sleep deprivation;    Arousal;    Pain;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1129-2377-14-56

 received in 2013-05-29, accepted in 2013-06-25,  发布年份 2013

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

We discuss the comments on our article “Sleep quality, arousal and pain thresholds in migraineurs. A blinded controlled polysomnographic study” published in JHP 2013 Feb 14;14(1):12. We hypothesize that migraineurs need more sleep than healthy controls and more sleep than they manage to achieve. Some migraineurs probably have a decreased ability to process incoming stimuli. Increased spontaneous pain may follow either sleep restriction or sleep disturbance. A comparison of migraineurs with attack onset related to sleep, migraineurs with attack onset not related to sleep and controls will be reported in another paper.

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