The Journal of Headache and Pain

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.

COVID-19 and impact on peer review

As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.

Q&A with Authors

Click here to see Q&As with the authors of the journal's most highly viewed articles!

Featured article: Mid- to late-life migraine diagnoses and risk of dementia

Articles

The role of deficient pain modulatory systems in the development of persistent post-traumatic headaches following mild traumatic brain injury: an exploratory longitudinal study

Authors: Kelly M. Naugle, Christopher Carey, Eric Evans, Jonathan Saxe, Ryan Overman and Fletcher A. White

Content type: Research article

3 December 2020
Migraine remains second among the world’s causes of disability, and first among young women: findings from GBD2019

Authors: T. J. Steiner, L. J. Stovner, R. Jensen, D. Uluduz and Z. Katsarava

Content type: Editorial

2 December 2020
Gray and white matter abnormalities in primary trigeminal neuralgia with and without neurovascular compression

Authors: Min Wu, Xiaofeng Jiang, Jun Qiu, Xianming Fu and Chaoshi Niu

Content type: Research article

25 November 2020
Mild traumatic brain injury is associated with effect of inflammation on structural changes of default mode network in those developing chronic pain

Authors: Xuan Niu, Lijun Bai, Yingxiang Sun, Yuan Wang, Guanghui Bai, Bo Yin, Shan Wang, Shuoqiu Gan, Xiaoyan Jia and Hongjuan Liu

Content type: Research article

23 November 2020
Interrelations between migraine-like headache and persistent post-traumatic headache attributed to mild traumatic brain injury: a prospective diary study

Authors: Håkan Ashina, Afrim Iljazi, Faisal M. Amin, Messoud Ashina, Richard B. Lipton and Henrik W. Schytz

Content type: Research article

19 November 2020

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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
Headache medication and the COVID-19 pandemic

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

Content type: Commentary

25 April 2020
The red ear syndrome

Authors: Giorgio Lambru, Sarah Miller and Manjit S Matharu

Content type: Review article

4 October 2013
Blocking CGRP in migraine patients – a review of pros and cons

Authors: Marie Deen, Edvige Correnti, Katharina Kamm, Tim Kelderman, Laura Papetti, Eloisa Rubio-Beltrán, Simone Vigneri, Lars Edvinsson and Antoinette Maassen Van Den Brink

Content type: Review article

25 September 2017
The association between headache and low back pain: a systematic review

Authors: Arani Vivekanantham, Claire Edwin, Tamar Pincus, Manjit Matharu, Helen Parsons and Martin Underwood

Content type: Review article

15 July 2019

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_{Editorial | 21 February 2018}
Migraine is first cause of disability in under 50s: will health politicians now take notice?
_{Timothy J. Steiner, Lars J. Stovner, Theo Vos, R. Jensen and Z. Katsarava}

_{Research | 05 February 2018}
Long-term study of the efficacy and safety of OnabotulinumtoxinA for the prevention of chronic migraine: COMPEL study
_{Andrew M. Blumenfeld, Richard J. Stark, Marshall C. Freeman, Amelia Orejudos and Aubrey Manack Adams}

_{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}

_{Research | 01 February 2018}
Poor medical care for people with migraine in Europe – evidence from the Eurolight study
^{Zaza Katsarava, Maka Mania, Christian Lampl, Johanna Herberhold and Timothy J. Steiner}

_{Review | 12 March 2018}
The big CGRP flood - sources, sinks and signalling sites in the trigeminovascular system
^{Karl Messlinger}

_{Review | 09 March 2018}
PACAP and its role in primary headaches
_{Lars Edvinsson, János Tajti, Levente Szalárdy and László Vécsei}

_{Review | 07 August 2018}
PACAP38 and PAC1 receptor blockade: a new target for headache?
_{Eloisa Rubio-Beltrán, Edvige Correnti, Marie Deen, Katharina Kamm, Tim Kelderman, Laura Papetti, Simone Vigneri, Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink and Lars Edvinsson}

_{Research | 24 May 2018}
Patterns of medicinal cannabis use, strain analysis, and substitution effect among patients with migraine, headache, arthritis, and chronic pain in a medicinal cannabis cohort
^{Eric P. Baron, Philippe Lucas, Joshua Eades and Olivia Hogue}

_{Consensus article | 08 October 2018}
European Headache Federation guideline on idiopathic intracranial hypertension
^{Jan Hoffmann, Susan P Mollan, Koen Paemeleire, Christian Lampl, Rigmor H Jensen and Alexandra J Sinclair}

_{Research | 18 January 2018}
Sphenopalatine ganglion stimulation for cluster headache, results from a large, open-label European registry
^{Mads Barloese, Anja Petersen, Philipp Stude, Tim Jürgens, Rigmor Højland Jensen and Arne May}

_{Publication years: 2018-2019
Source: Web of Science, data collected: March 2020}

European Headache Federation School of Advanced Studies

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.

Editorial Office

Editor in Chief (Founding)
Paolo Martelletti, MD,
Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine
Sapienza University of Rome
Via di Grottarossa 1035
I-00189 Rome, Italy
Tel.: +39-06-33775111
Fax: +39-06-33775110
E-mail: paolo.martelletti@uniroma1.it

Assistant to the Editor: Valerio De Angelis
E-mail: valerio.deangelis@uniroma1.it

Article collections

Click here to see the article collections and thematic series that the journal has published in recent years.

Featured article: Trigeminal activation patterns evoked by chemical stimulation of the dura mater in rats

In Review

The Journal of Headache and Pain has launched In Review, a new option that provides authors with on-demand information on the status of their manuscript, enables them to share their work with funders and their research community, and allows their colleagues to comment and collaborate - all whilst their manuscript is under review.

Hot topics in headache and pain from the EHF-SAS

Edited by Prof Paolo Martelletti
Open to submissions

Editorial Board Spotlight

Prof. Sung-Pa Park is Professor of Neurology at Kyungpook National University. He is the head of the Headache & Epilepsy Unit, with special expertise in managing primary headache and epilepsy. His studies mainly focus on the psychiatric comorbidities and their impact on quality of life in headache and epilepsy.

Blogs

It’s not just a headache! A patient’s perspective on the advances in migraine treatment over the last 25 years

05 September 2019
How do sex hormones influence migraine?

02 September 2019
The New Era Of Disease Modifying Migraine Drugs (DMMDs)

01 September 2019

Academic education in headache

The demand for a broad, complete and independent education in Headache Disorders has increased over time. The following international Masters courses guarantee a full coverage of this area of clinical medicine.

For more information:

Master in Headache Medicine
Sapienza University
Academic Year 2020-2021

Master of Headache Disorders
University of Copenhagen
Academic Years 2018-2020