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Lead
University of California, San Francisco
With
Allergan
Specific aims of the study include:
1. To determine the pattern of brain metabolism using positron emission tomography (PET) found in chronic migraine, episodic migraine and control patients.
2. To determine changes of resting state brain networks using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) between patients with chronic or episodic headache and healthy volunteers.
Age
18–65
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
Patients aged 18-65
* No medical contraindication.
Chronic headache group:
Patients with chronic primary headaches who are experiencing phases with background pain as well as habitual pain exacerbations.
Able to provide informed consent.
Not pregnant or planning to become so, with a pregnancy test prior to scanning.
Control group and Episodic migraine group:
Patients with episodic migraine
Able to provide informed consent.
Not pregnant or planning to become so, with a pregnancy test prior to scanning.
You may not be if
Taking a migraine preventive currently or in the last fifteen days.
Known claustrophobia
Patient is pregnant, planning to be pregnant, or becomes pregnant.
Patients with metal implants.
Patients who have had a study involving radiation within the one year prior to enrolling in this study
