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Papers: 22 Jun 2019 - 28 Jun 2019


Human Studies

PAIN TYPE:
Migraine/Headache


2019 Sep


Clin J Pain


35


9

Individualization of Migraine Prevention: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Psychophysical Based Prediction of Duloxetine Efficacy.

Authors

Kisler LB, Weissman-Fogel I, Coghill RC, Sprecher E, Yarnitsky D, Granovsky Y
Clin J Pain. 2019 Sep; 35(9):753-765.
PMID: 31241488.

Abstract

Finding an effective preventive agent for the individual migraineur is often long and frustrating. An individual-specific, efficacy-predicting tool, would be invaluable in directing, shortening, and improving this process. As the serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI) duloxetine is a pain modulator, we hypothesized that pro-nociceptivity will directly predict drug efficacy, so that the more pro-nociceptive the patient is, the more efficacious the drug. Therefore, we used psychophysical pain measures to predict duloxetine efficacy in migraine prevention.