Marla J S Mickleborough1, Christine M Chapman2, Andreea S Toma2, Todd C Handy2. 1. Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver BC, Canada. Electronic address: marla.mick@usask.ca. 2. Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver BC, Canada.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: People with migraine headache have altered interictal visual sensory-level processing in between headache attacks. Here we examined the extent to which these migraine abnormalities may extend into higher visual processing such as implicit evaluative analysis of visual images in between migraine events. METHODS: Specifically, we asked two groups of participants--migraineurs (N=29) and non-migraine controls (N=29)--to view a set of unfamiliar commercial logos in the context of a target identification task as the brain electrical responses to these objects were recorded via event-related potentials (ERPs). Following this task, participants individually identified those logos that they most liked or disliked. We applied a between-groups comparison of how ERP responses to logos varied as a function of hedonic evaluation. RESULTS: Our results suggest migraineurs have abnormal implicit evaluative processing of visual stimuli. Specifically, migraineurs lacked a bias for disliked logos found in control subjects, as measured via a late positive potential (LPP) ERP component. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest post-sensory consequences of migraine in between headache events, specifically abnormal cognitive evaluative processing with a lack of normal categorical hedonic evaluation.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:People with migraineheadache have altered interictal visual sensory-level processing in between headache attacks. Here we examined the extent to which these migraine abnormalities may extend into higher visual processing such as implicit evaluative analysis of visual images in between migraine events. METHODS: Specifically, we asked two groups of participants--migraineurs (N=29) and non-migraine controls (N=29)--to view a set of unfamiliar commercial logos in the context of a target identification task as the brain electrical responses to these objects were recorded via event-related potentials (ERPs). Following this task, participants individually identified those logos that they most liked or disliked. We applied a between-groups comparison of how ERP responses to logos varied as a function of hedonic evaluation. RESULTS: Our results suggest migraineurs have abnormal implicit evaluative processing of visual stimuli. Specifically, migraineurs lacked a bias for disliked logos found in control subjects, as measured via a late positive potential (LPP) ERP component. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest post-sensory consequences of migraine in between headache events, specifically abnormal cognitive evaluative processing with a lack of normal categorical hedonic evaluation.
Authors: Gianluca Coppola; Antonio Di Renzo; Emanuele Tinelli; Chiara Lepre; Cherubino Di Lorenzo; Giorgio Di Lorenzo; Marco Scapeccia; Vincenzo Parisi; Mariano Serrao; Claudio Colonnese; Jean Schoenen; Francesco Pierelli Journal: J Headache Pain Date: 2016-10-24 Impact factor: 7.277