CIRCLE OF WILLIS VARIABILITY AND MIGRAINE

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. The central hypothesis of this project is that circle of Willis anomalies correlate with alterations in cerebral hemodynamics and contribute to migraine susceptibility and ischemic complications of migraine. This project uses ASL, transit time mapping, high resolution MRA and fMRI to study the structural variation of Circle of Willis and associated functional changes in migraine patients compared to matched controls.