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The\n                    <jats:italic>unexpectedness<\/jats:italic>\n                    of daily experiences, quantified through information-theoretic surprisal, may integrate many sources of variation and predict future migraine attacks.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between surprisal and future headache attacks.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In this prospective daily diary study, N = 109 individuals with migraine were enrolled, with N = 104 completing twice-daily electronic entries for up to 28 days, yielding 5,176 total diaries. Diary items captured exposure to potential migraine triggers across behavioral, emotional, and environmental domains. For each entry, total surprisal scores were calculated using within-person empirical probability distributions to reflect how atypical each day\u2019s experiences were.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Participants experienced a headache on 1,518\/5,145 (29.5%) of days with complete diary information. Higher surprisal significantly predicted increased migraine risk within 12 hours (OR = 1.86 [95%CI: 1.12\u20133.08], p = 0.016) and 24 hours (OR = 2.15 [95%CI: 1.44\u20133.20], p &lt; 0.001), with stronger effects observed at the longer interval. Notably, the association between current surprisal and migraine onset was moderated by recent surprisal history and exhibited nonlinear properties at 12 hours. Random effects revealed substantial between-person variability in surprisal sensitivity, and individuals with higher baseline headache risk showed attenuated associations.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>\n                <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Surprisal offers a novel, individualized measure of trigger unpredictability that is associated with short-term migraine risk. Incorporating surprisal into digital tools may improve personalized prediction and prevention strategies, moving beyond static trigger lists to a dynamic, context-aware model of migraine self-management.<\/jats:p>\n                <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1101\/2025.04.23.25325821","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,25]],"date-time":"2025-04-25T18:45:12Z","timestamp":1745606712000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Evaluating Migraine Trigger Surprisal: Associations with Migraine Activity"],"prefix":"10.64898","author":[{"given":"Dana P.","family":"Turner","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Twinkle","family":"Patel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emily","family":"Caplis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Timothy T.","family":"Houle","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"54368","reference":[{"key":"2025042804350524000_2025.04.23.25325821v1.1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"911","DOI":"10.1016\/S1474-4422(22)00211-3","article-title":"Lifestyle factors and migraine","volume":"21","year":"2022","journal-title":"Lancet Neurol"},{"key":"2025042804350524000_2025.04.23.25325821v1.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0333102417727535"},{"key":"2025042804350524000_2025.04.23.25325821v1.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/head.12468"},{"key":"2025042804350524000_2025.04.23.25325821v1.4","first-page":"370","article-title":"Appraisal of headache trigger patterns using calendars","volume":"60","year":"2019","journal-title":"Headache"},{"key":"2025042804350524000_2025.04.23.25325821v1.5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"90","DOI":"10.1111\/head.13943","article-title":"Patterns of perceived stress throughout the migraine cycle: A longitudinal cohort study using daily prospective diary data","volume":"61","year":"2021","journal-title":"Headache"},{"key":"2025042804350524000_2025.04.23.25325821v1.6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11916-018-0734-0"},{"key":"2025042804350524000_2025.04.23.25325821v1.7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Turner DP . 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