Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Global Mİgraine and Pain Summit, 5th MENA meeting and 3rd Turkish African Meeting of Headache and Pain Management, Antalya, Türkiye, 27 - 30 Ekim 2021, ss.38
Background and Objective: Various visual complaints are described by migraine patients. Visual temporal
discrimination (VTD) is the ability to discriminate and react to the movement, contrast, location and contours of
two sequential visual stimuli. We aimed to evaluate the temporal discrimination of visual perception in migraine
patients.
Methodology: 15 migraine without aura patients and 15 healthy volunteers were included. Migraine patients were
examined twice, once during the attack period and once during the interictal period.
Results: The mean ictal VTD threshold value of the ipsilateral visual field (143.8±53.8 ms) was significantly higher
than the mean interictal VTD threshold value of the ipsilateral visual field (78.0±19.6 ms, p= 0.025). Ictal VTD
threshold values (102.3±38.4 ms for the right visual field and 106.3±52.2 ms for the left visual field) and interictal
VTD threshold values (75.2±27.9 ms for the right visual field and 77.2±27.9 ms for the left visual field) were
significantly higher than the VTD threshold values of the healthy controls (45.3±9.9 ms for the right visual field and
48.2±11.9 ms for the left visual field, p<0.001, p<0.01, p=0.003 and p<0.001 respectively).
Conclusion: We showed for the first time that VTD threshold values were higher in migraine patients both during
an attack and during the interictal period compared to healthy controls. Additionally ictal VTD threshold values of
the ipsilateral visual field were significantly higher compared to the interictal VTD threshold values. According to
neuroanatomic pathway of VTD, visual processing involving brain stem, basal ganglia and thalamus seems to be
defective in migraine patients.