Abstract
BACKGROUND: Many studies have shown that migraine patients have an interictal habituation deficit of visual evoked potentials (VEPs). Some discordant results were attributed to non-blinded analyses and a lack of repeatability.
AIMS: In this study, we compared blinded and non-blinded analyses of the same recordings and assessed test-retest repeatability.
METHODS: VEP recordings of 25 healthy volunteers (HVs) and 78 episodic migraine patients (EMs; 52 interictal, 26 ictal) were analysed by two investigators, one of whom was blinded to diagnosis and headache phase. Twelve HVs and nine EMs had two recordings for test repeatability.
RESULTS: In both blinded and non-blinded analyses, VEP habituation was normal in HVs and EMs during an attack, but deficient in EMs interictally. Intra-individual habituation percentages were highly correlated in two recordings separated by ≥7 days.
CONCLUSIONS: The studies showing a VEP habituation deficit in migraineurs between attacks are unlikely to be biased by non-blinding analysis or poor repeatability.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Cephalalgia |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - May 6 2016 |
Keywords
- Journal Article