• Expert Rev Neurother · Dec 2007

    Review

    Neurostimulation in primary headache syndromes.

    • Peter J Goadsby.
    • Headache Group, Institute of Neurology,The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK. peterg@ion.ucl.ac.uk
    • Expert Rev Neurother. 2007 Dec 1; 7 (12): 1785-9.

    AbstractNeurostimulation therapy involves the use of peripheral or central nerve electrical stimulation approaches for the treatment of medically intractable headache. Currently, for peripheral stimulation the main approach is that of occipital nerve stimulation, while for central stimulation deep-brain approaches with the target of the region of the posterior hypothalamic gray matter have been explored. Target conditions include migraine and the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias: cluster headache, paroxysmal hemicrania and short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing/cranial autonomic features (SUNCT/SUNA), as well as hemicrania continua. The initial results are encouraging and given the very significant disability of medically intractable primary headaches, this is a very promising area for patients and physicians alike.

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