A new paper, White matter changes in chronic and episodic migraine: a diffusion tensor imaging study, written by Álvaro Planchuelo-Gómez, Santiago Aja-Fernández and Rodrigo de Luis-García, in colaboration with the Headache Unit and the Deparment of Radiology of the Clinical Hospital of Valladolid, has been published in the Journal of Headache and Pain. In this article, global white matter differences between chronic and episodic migraine have been found for the first time using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) measures and Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS). Our findings suggest axonal integrity impairment in the first months of chronic migraine, with respect to episodic migraine, and a posterior set of maladaptive white matter plastic changes in chronic migraine.

Álvaro Planchuelo-Gómez and Dr. David García-Azorín, from the Headache Unit of the Clinical Hospital of Valladolid, have been interviewed by the International Headache Society. Following the article Structural connectivity alterations in chronic and episodic migraine: A diffusion magnetic resonance imaging connectomics study, they talked about the main findings of the article, future lines of research, implications for migraine patients and research communities interested in the paper.

Elisa Moya-Sáez and Álvaro Planchuelo-Gómez took part in the 2019 edition of the 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) competition organized by the University of Valladolid. They summarized their research projects in a three-minute presentation, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.

Elena Martín-González has been awarded the prize “José María Ferrero Corral” in the 37th Conference of the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (CASEIB2019), held in Santander (Spain) between the 27th and 29th of November, for the communication “Groupwise Deep Learning-based Approach for Motion Compensation. Application to Compressed Sensing 2D Cardiac Cine MRI Reconstruction”.

Last 21st November 201, Santiago Sanz defended his PhD Thesis entitled "On motion in dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Applications in cardiac function and abdominal diffusion", getting a qualification of "Sobresaliente" and being proposed for "cum laude" distinction.