The Journal of Headache and Pain

Featured Articles: September, 2022

Disease- and headache-specific microRNA signatures and their predicted mRNA targets in peripheral blood mononuclear cells in migraineurs: role of inflammatory signalling and oxidative stress

Functional connectivity and structural changes of thalamic subregions in episodic migraine.

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Aims and scope

The Journal of Headache and Pain is a peer-reviewed open access journal specifically dedicated to researchers involved in all aspects of headache and related pain syndromes, including epidemiology, public health, basic science, translational medicine, clinical trials and real-world data. With a multidisciplinary perspective, The Journal of Headache and Pain covers headache medicine and related pain syndromes in all medical disciplines and particularly encourages clinical, translational and basic science submissions in the areas of pain management, genetics, neurology and internal medicine. Read more.

Articles

Using natural language processing to automatically classify written self-reported narratives by patients with migraine or cluster headache

Authors: Nicolas Vandenbussche, Cynthia Van Hee, Véronique Hoste and Koen Paemeleire

Content type: Research 30 September 2022
A c-Fos activation map in nitroglycerin/levcromakalim-induced models of migraine

Authors: Shouyi Wu, Xiao Ren, Chenlu Zhu, Wei Wang, Kaibo Zhang, Zhilei Li, Xuejiao Liu and Yonggang Wang

Content type: Research 30 September 2022
Alterations in metabolic flux in migraine and the translational relevance

Authors: Olivia Grech, Matilde Sassani, Gisela Terwindt, Gareth G. Lavery, Susan P. Mollan and Alexandra J. Sinclair

Content type: Review 30 September 2022
Exploring the neurobiology of the premonitory phase of migraine preclinically – a role for hypothalamic kappa opioid receptors?

Authors: Caroline M. Kopruszinski, Robson Vizin, Moe Watanabe, Ashley L. Martinez, Luiz Henrique Moreira de Souza, David W. Dodick, Frank Porreca and Edita Navratilova

Content type: Research 30 September 2022
Synaptic alterations in visual cortex reshape contrast-dependent gamma oscillations and inhibition-excitation ratio in a genetic mouse model of migraine

Authors: Nicolò Meneghetti, Chiara Cerri, Eleonora Vannini, Elena Tantillo, Angelita Tottene, Daniela Pietrobon, Matteo Caleo and Alberto Mazzoni

Content type: Research 29 September 2022

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Headache in transient ischemic attacks

Authors: Elena R. Lebedeva, Natalia M. Gurary and Jes Olesen

Content type: Research article 27 July 2018
Delayed headache after COVID-19 vaccination: a red flag for vaccine induced cerebral venous thrombosis

Authors: David García-Azorín, Thien Phu Do, Andreas R. Gantenbein, Jakob Møller Hansen, Marcio Nattan P. Souza, Mark Obermann, Heiko Pohl, Christoph J. Schankin, Henrik Winther Schytz, Alexandra Sinclair, Guus G. Schoonman and Espen Saxhaug Kristoffersen

Content type: Short report 17 September 2021
Headache characteristics in COVID-19 pandemic-a survey study

Authors: Özge Uygun, Mustafa Ertaş, Esme Ekizoğlu, Hayrunnisa Bolay, Aynur Özge, Elif Kocasoy Orhan, Arif Atahan Çağatay and Betül Baykan

Content type: Research article 13 October 2020
Headache medication and the COVID-19 pandemic

Authors: Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink, Tessa de Vries and A. H. Jan Danser

Content type: Commentary 25 April 2020
Headache associated with cough: a review

Authors: Ann Cordenier, Willem De Hertogh, Jacques De Keyser and Jan Versijpt

Content type: Review article 20 May 2013

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_{Consensus article | 16 January 2019}
European headache federation guideline on the use of monoclonal antibodies acting on the calcitonin gene related peptide or its receptor for migraine prevention
_{Simona Sacco, Lars Bendtsen, Messoud Ashina, Uwe Reuter, Gisela Terwindt, Dimos-Dimitrios Mitsikostas and Paolo Martelletti}

^{Consensus article | 21 May 2019}
Aids to management of headache disorders in primary care (2nd edition)
_{on behalf of the European Headache Federation and Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache
T. J. Steiner, R. Jensen, Z. Katsarava, M. Linde, E. A. MacGregor, V. Osipova, K. Paemeleire, J. Olesen, M. Peters & P. Martelletti}

_{Review article | 25 April 2019}
A narrative review on the burden of migraine: when the burden is the impact on people’s life
_{Matilde Leonardi & Alberto Raggi}

_{Research article | 07 April 2020}
Real-life data on the efficacy and safety of erenumab in the Abruzzo region, central Italy
_{Raffaele Ornello, Alfonsina Casalena, Ilaria Frattale, Amleto Gabriele, Giannapia Affaitati, Maria Adele Giamberardino, Maurizio Assetta, Maurizio Maddestra, Fabio Marzoli, Stefano Viola, Davide Cerone, Carmine Marini, Francesca Pistoia & Simona Sacco}

_{Review article | 09 May 2019}
Understanding the nature of psychiatric comorbidity in migraine: a systematic review focused on interactions and treatment implications
_{Thomas Dresler, Salvatore Caratozzolo, Kaat Guldolf, Jana-Isabel Huhn, Carmela Loiacono, Triinu Niiberg-Pikksööt, Marta Puma, Giorgia Sforza, Anna Tobia, Raffaele Ornello & Gianluca Serafini on behalf of the European Headache Federation School of Advanced Studies (EHF-SAS)}

_{Review article | 13 February 2020}
Gut-brain Axis and migraine headache: a comprehensive review
_{Mahsa Arzani, Soodeh Razeghi Jahromi, Zeinab Ghorbani, Fahimeh Vahabizad, Paolo Martelletti, Amir Ghaemi, Simona Sacco & Mansoureh Togha On behalf of the School of Advanced Studies of the European Headache Federation (EHF-SAS)}

_{Review article | 30 August 2019}
Current and emerging evidence-based treatment options in chronic migraine: a narrative review
_{Elio Clemente Agostoni, Piero Barbanti, Paolo Calabresi, Bruno Colombo, Pietro Cortelli, Fabio Frediani, Pietrangelo Geppetti, Licia Grazzi, Massimo Leone, Paolo Martelletti, Luigi Alberto Pini, Maria Pia Prudenzano, Paola Sarchielli, Gioacchino Tedeschi, Antonio Russo & The Italian chronic migraine group}

_{Editorial | 02 December 2020}
Migraine remains second among the world’s causes of disability, and first among young women: findings from GBD2019
_{T. J. Steiner, L. J. Stovner, R. Jensen, D. Uluduz & Z. Katsarava on behalf of Lifting The Burden: the Global Campaign against Headache}

_{Review article | 17 April 2019}
Therapeutic novelties in migraine: new drugs, new hope?
_{Thien Phu Do, Song Guo & Messoud Ashina}

_{Research article | 29 July 2020}
Factors associated with the presence of headache in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and impact on prognosis: a retrospective cohort study
_{Javier Trigo, David García-Azorín, Álvaro Planchuelo-Gómez, Enrique Martínez-Pías, Blanca Talavera, Isabel Hernández-Pérez, Gonzalo Valle-Peñacoba, Paula Simón-Campo, Mercedes de Lera, Alba Chavarría-Miranda, Cristina López-Sanz, María Gutiérrez-Sánchez, Elena Martínez-Velasco, María Pedraza, Álvaro Sierra, Beatriz Gómez-Vicente, Juan Francisco Arenillas & Ángel L. Guerrero}

_{Research article | 01 June 2020}
A prospective real-world analysis of erenumab in refractory chronic migraine
_{Giorgio Lambru, Bethany Hill, Madeleine Murphy, Ivona Tylova & Anna P. Andreou}

_{Publication years: 2019-2020
Source: Web of Science, data collected: February 2022}

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European Headache Federation School of Advanced Studies

Read the latest review article by Matteo Castaldo and Marta Waliszewska‑Prosół et al. published in the collection Hot topics in headache and pain from the EHF-SAS

Key messages of the review are nicely presented in the visual abstract below!

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The European Headache Federation School of Advanced Studies (EHF-SAS) aims to support headache science and offers young EU scientists high quality educational activities to enhance their critical spirit and skills to face headache medicine from a multidisciplinary perspective.

The EHF-SAS covers the richness and diversity of headache medicine fields, including basic science, clinical science, and diagnostic science, and places an emphasis on collaborative projects. The European Headache Federation will support its fellows’ activities allowing them to independently build their own plan sided by the EHF-SAS Scientific Committee.

Call for papers

Real-world evidence of emerging therapies in headache

New Content Item Edited by: Shuu-Jiun Wang and Michel Lanteri-Minet

The aim of this thematic series is to collect high quality real-world data within the headache field. Read more about the scope of the series and contribute with your own research and review articles.

Molecular interactions in migraine

Edit New Content Item ed by Rashid Giniatullin

The aim of this thematic series is to highlight the complexity of molecular mechanisms underlying different types of migraine.

Article collections

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Change to the journal’s peer review policy!

The Journal New Content Item (2) of Headache and Pain moves to transparent peer review (TPR).

Under TPR, the journal now publishes all reviewer reports along with the accepted articles under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 but signing of reviewer reports will be optional.

The benefit of transparent peer review is that it increases transparency. In addition, published reports can serve an educational purpose in helping facilitate training and research into peer review.

As a publisher we are firmly committed to the principles of, and move towards open research and science. This transition is reflective not only of our wider vision to support openness and transparency in peer review, a fundamental value at Springer Nature, but also ensuring that our mission and policies best align with the needs and requirements of the research community to support their development and engagement with the journals. Read more about the journal’s peer review policy here.

Editorial Board Spotlight

Francisco Félix Caballero is one of the statistical advisors for the journal. Dr. Caballero teaches Biostatistics and Sampling in the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has explored determinants associated with healthy ageing trajectories and analysed the impact of healthy lifestyle behaviours on the development of multimorbidity. His current research lines include the promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviours and the analysis of the relationship between metabolomic profiles and physical function in older population.