Defining the Sympathetic Skin Response of Migraineurs in the Facial Area

Defining the Sympathetic Skin Response of Migraineurs in the Facial Area During the Interictal State: Comparison of Migraine Patients Who Suffer Dominant Left/Right/Bilateral Pain.

The aim of this study is to define the sympathetic skin response of migraineurs in the facial area. This will be achieved by exposing healthy volunteers and migraine patients to various stress stimuli (pain, visual stimulation, auditory stimulation and a mathematical challenge), and recording sympathetic skin response in the facial area.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy volunteers with no history of any kind of recurrent headache
• Migraine patients according to ICH3 criteria
• Migraine patients with more than 1 attack per month

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with other heart or neurologic diseases
• Patients with hearing or visual decline
• Patients taking medication that effects the sympathetic system (except those taking beta blockers for migraine treatment)