NCT02854930

Near Death Experience (NDE) and Migraine

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Migraine is a common disabling primary headache disorder. Epidemiological studies have documented its high prevalence and high socio-economic and personal impacts. Migraine affects more than 20% of the French population. However, the physiopathology of migraine is always partially known. Cortical spreading depression (CSD) is the widely accepted as the electrophysiologic substrate of migraine aura. CSD is a slowly propagating wave of transient neuronal and glial depolarization. The near death experience (NDE) is a rare, but well known phenomenon. NDE are profound psychic experiences commonly occuring in life-threatening conditions. Among the neurological hypotheses, epilepsy, temporal lobe disorders , REM-sleep intrusion have been discussed. However, the role of DCE has never been discussed. The goals of this study are : to see if there is an epidemiological link between NDE and migraine/ to specify if NDE was followed by a migrainous headache.

Conditions

• Migraine
• Near Death Experience

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	questioning

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-01-01
• Completion: 2018-03-01
• First posted: 2016-08-04
• Last updated: 2016-08-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France