Prophylactic treatment with repetitive cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation of the visual cortex decrease the number of attacks in patients with menstrual migraine

Background and Purpose: Differences between people with and without migraine on visual perception an cortical excitability have been attributed to abnormal cortical processing due to the disease between and during attacks. Preventive therapy is indicated in about third of patients, and although a broad range of pharmaceutical option exists, there is an increasing interest with regard to non-pharmaceutical alternatives. According to this, the application of repetitive cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (rc-tDCS) of the visual cortex (V1) as a non-invasive brain stimulation method might be a therapeu…