Neurophysiology of the Migraine Brain / Headache (PDF)

Gianluca Coppola is a board-certified neurologist and holds a doctoral degree from Sapienza University of Rome. Having subsequently completed the certification as a Full Professor of Neurology, he is currently a University Researcher at Sapienza University of Rome Polo Pontino, Latina, Italy. He is trustee for the International Headache Society (IHS), and secretary of the Italian Society for the Study of Headache (SISC). His research interests include the use of neurophysiology and neuroimaging techniques to understand primary headaches pathophysiology, and the study of synaptic plasticity in visual, somatosensory, and motor systems.

Wei-Ta Chen, MD PhD, is a headache specialist at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and a Professor of Neurology at the School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Taiwan Headache Society. Dr. Chen has long been interested in exploring the mechanisms of neurological diseases by means of functional neuroimaging. He has published a series of magnetoencephalographic (MEG) studies regarding brain excitability change of migraine in prestigious medical journals including Brain, Pain, and Cephalalgia. His current focus is on combining MEG with structural and functional MRI to unravel the pathomechanism and neuroplasticity of chronic pain disorders including migraine, tension-type headache and fibromyalgia.