Periventricular diffusivity at the ventricular-parenchymal interface across healthy controls, episodic migraine, and chronic migraine: a cross-sectional multimodal MRI study
Fangwang Fu, Chenyu Dai, Chenyu Lin, Xiaoqing Liu, Zi Tao, Xiaojie Zhang, Xinhao Li, Mengqian Ye, Tong Xu, Yixuan Hu, Kun Liu, Yungang Cao, Keyang Chen, Beilei Hu, Xiaozheng Liu, Jing Sun, Yan Li · 2026
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Fangwang Fu leads a 2026 brain imaging study testing whether water movement beside the brain's fluid chambers separates chronic migraine from the episodic form. Chronic migraine brings heavy disability, yet scan markers that distinguish the two patterns remain scarce.
Scans from 289 adults covered healthy controls, episodic migraine, and chronic migraine, all taken between attacks in evening sessions. The marker, periventricular diffusivity, was clearly lower in chronic migraine than in both other groups, which did not differ from each other. Lower values tracked with more frequent headaches, greater disability scores, and several structural brain differences. The authors propose the measure as a candidate signature of chronic migraine.
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| CREATOR | Fangwang Fu, Chenyu Dai, Chenyu Lin, Xiaoqing Liu, Zi Tao, Xiaojie Zhang, Xinhao Li, Mengqian Ye, Tong Xu, Yixuan Hu, Kun Liu, Yungang Cao, Keyang Chen, Beilei Hu, Xiaozheng Liu, Jing Sun, Yan Li |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54664 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |