EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON HEADACHE
- 1 November 1940
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 44 (5) , 929-949
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1940.02280110003001
Abstract
Earlier studies have indicated that the dilatation and distention of cranial arteries form the basis of the headache produced by a variety of factors.1The purpose of this communication is to analyze further the mechanism of such headache and to ascertain which cranial arteries are responsible for the headache in each instance. MIGRAINE HEADACHE EFFECT OF VARIOUS AGENTS It was shown1bthat the termination of attacks of migraine headache by ergotamine tartrate regularly paralleled the decrease in amplitude of pulsations of the cranial arteries, chiefly certain branches of the external carotid artery. Pressure over the common carotid artery on the side of the headache reduced the severity of the attack during the pressure. The amelioration was associated with decreased amplitude of pulsations of the temporal artery. Conversely, the distention of the walls of the cranial arteries, for example, experimental distention of the temporal and the middle meningeal arteries,This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- ERGONOVINE VERSUS ERGOTAMINE AS A TERMINATOR OF MIGRAINE HEADACHESThe Lancet Healthy Longevity, 1938
- THE CEREBRAL CIRCULATIONAmerican Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content, 1929