The Journal of Headache and Pain

Featured Articles: September, 2023

Current treatment options for cluster headache: limitations and the unmet need for better and specific treatments—a consensus article

Calcitonin gene-related peptide causes migraine aura

Call for papers

Neuroimmune Interplay in Headache

Edited by Gregory Dussor and Kristian Agmund Haanes

The Journal of Headache and Pain invites participating authors to submit their manuscripts to our Collection on Neuroimmune Interplay in Headache. This collection will explore the latest research on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of migraine-associated neuroimmune interplay, as well as the clinical implications of these findings.

European Headache Federation (EHF) reappraisal of standard of care preventives in migraine

Edited by Christian Lampl

The Journal of Headache and Pain invites participating authors to submit their manuscripts to our Collection on European Headache Federation (EHF) reappraisal of standard of care preventives in migraine.

One Health for Headache

Edited by Dr. Matilde Leonardi and Dr. Paolo Martelletti
The Journal of Headache and Pain is calling for submissions to our Collection on One Health for Headache. This Collection aims to create a cross-disciplinary space for those working within and across clinical, social, and public health paradigms to address and reduce the burden of headache globally and reduce disability from this major non-communicable disease.

Chronic Headaches and Medication Overuse

Edited by Dr. Gianluca Coppola
The Journal of Headache and Pain invites participating authors to submit to our Collection on Chronic Headaches and Medication Overuse. This thematic series intends to approach chronic headache and symptom overuse from a broad and multidisciplinary perspective centred on these and other unanswered concerns.

Neuroimage on Headache

Edited by Yonggang Wang

This thematic series aims to provide a collection of papers addressing the novel pathophysiology and developing neuroimaging-guided treatments for headache disorders.

Read more about the scope of the series and contribute with your own research and review articles.

Article collections

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Visual Abstracts

The Journal of Headache and Pain encourages authors to submit a visual abstract as a supplementary file along with their manuscripts.

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Recently Published Visual Abstracts

The effect of sex and estrus cycle stage on optogenetic spreading depression induced migraine-like pain phenotypes

Articles

COVID-19 vaccination-related headache showed two different clusters in the long-term course: a prospective multicenter follow-up study (COVA-Head Study)

Authors: Arife Çimen Atalar, Ayşe Nur Özdağ Acarlı, Betül Baykan, Paolo Martelletti, Hayrunnisa Bolay, Mustafa Ertaş, Esme Ekizoğlu, Ömer Karadaş, Burcu Polat, Işıl Yazıcı Gençdal, David Garcia Azorin, Dimos Mitsikostas, Loukia Apostolakopoulou, Hamit Genç, Pınar Yalınay Dikmen, Esra Acıman Demirel…

Content type: Research 29 September 2023
Menstrual migraine is caused by estrogen withdrawal: revisiting the evidence

Authors: Bianca Raffaelli, Thien Phu Do, Basit Ali Chaudhry, Messoud Ashina, Faisal Mohammad Amin and Håkan Ashina

Content type: Review 21 September 2023
Serum tau protein elevation in migraine: a cross-sectional case–control study

Authors: Lucas Hendrik Overeem, Bianca Raffaelli, Robert Fleischmann, Marie Süße, Antje Vogelgesang, Aleksandra Maleska Maceski, Athina Papadopoulou, Klemens Ruprecht, Wendy Su, Mirja Koch, Anke Siebert, Michal Arkuszewski, Nadia Tenenbaum, Jens Kuhle and Uwe Reuter

Content type: Research 19 September 2023
European Headache Federation (EHF) critical re-appraisal and meta-analysis of oral drugs in migraine prevention—part 2: flunarizine

Authors: Christina I. Deligianni, Simona Sacco, Esme Ekizoglu, Derya Uluduz, Raquel Gil-Gouveia, Antoinette MaassenVanDenBrink, Raffaele Ornello, Margarita Sanchez-del-Rio, Uwe Reuter, Jan Versijpt, Tessa de Vries, Muizz Hussain, Dena Zeraatkar and Christian Lampl

Content type: Review 19 September 2023
Efficacy and safety of intranasal agents for the acute treatment of migraine: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Authors: Guanglu Li, Shaojie Duan, Tiantian Zhu, Zhiying Ren, Hui Xia, Ziyao Wang, Lei Liu and Zunjing Liu

Content type: Review 18 September 2023

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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
Long COVID headache

Authors: Claudio Tana, Enrico Bentivegna, Soo-Jin Cho, Andrea M. Harriott, David García-Azorín, Alejandro Labastida-Ramirez, Raffaele Ornello, Bianca Raffaelli, Eloísa Rubio Beltrán, Ruth Ruscheweyh and Paolo Martelletti

Content type: Review 1 August 2022
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

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Editorial | 2 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 and Z. Katsarava

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 and Mansoureh Togha

Research article | 7 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 and Simona Sacco

Research article | 1 June 2020
A prospective real-world analysis of erenumab in refractory chronic migraine
Giorgio Lambru, Bethany Hill, Madeleine Murphy, Ivona Tylova and Anna P. Andreou

Consensus article | 16 June 2020
European headache federation consensus on the definition of resistant and refractory migraine
Simona Sacco, Mark Braschinsky, Anne Ducros, Christian Lampl, Patrick Little, Antoinette Maassen van den Brink, Patricia Pozo-Rosich, Uwe Reuter, Elena Ruiz de la Torre, Margarita Sanchez Del Rio, Alexandra J. Sinclair, Zaza Katsarava and Paolo Martelletti

Research article | 13 October 2020
Headache characteristics in COVID-19 pandemic-a survey study
Özge Uygun, Mustafa Ertaş, Esme Ekizoğlu, Hayrunnisa Bolay, Aynur Özge, Elif Kocasoy Orhan, Arif Atahan Çağatay and Betül Baykan

Research article | 2 March 2020
Comorbid and co-occurring conditions in migraine and associated risk of increasing headache pain intensity and headache frequency: results of the migraine in America symptoms and treatment (MAST) study
Dawn C. Buse, Michael L. Reed, Kristina M. Fanning, Ryan Bostic, David W. Dodick, Todd J. Schwedt, Sagar Munjal, Preeti Singh and Richard B. Lipton

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 and Ángel L. Guerrero

Research article | 9 June 2020
Multidimensional assessment of the effects of erenumab in chronic migraine patients with previous unsuccessful preventive treatments: a comprehensive real-world experience
Antonio Russo, Marcello Silvestro, Fabrizio Scotto di Clemente, Francesca Trojsi, Alvino Bisecco, Simona Bonavita, Alessandro Tessitore and Gioacchino Tedeschi

Research article | 24 September 2020
Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on patients with migraine: a web-based survey study
Jasem Y. Al-Hashel and Ismail Ibrahim Ismail

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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.

Training Course in HEADACHES

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UnitelmaSapienza announces a new online Training Course for graduate healthcare professionals interested in headaches.

- Public Health Priorities
- Biopsychosocial Burden
- Economic Problems and Barriers to Treatment
- WHOiGAP Global Action Plan on Neurological Disorders
- Sustainable Development Goal SDG3 as a Pillar of Education

40 free scholarships are available on a first-come first-served basis for registrants from Low or Medium Income Countries (according to World Bank parameters).

For more information, or to register for the course, click here.

Exploring SDG3: Good Health and Wellbeing

Collaborative evidence-based approaches to public policy and healthcare policy and practice are essential, not only in addressing inequalities but also in building trusted sustainable ways forward in which to ensure good health and wellbeing for all. The Journal of Headache and Pain supports submissions that address the SDG3 targets and indicators.

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European Headache Federation School of Advanced Studies

The European HeadacheFederation 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 Board Spotlight

Igor Petrušić MD, PhD, (radiologist, pain medicine specialist trainee, and clinical neuroscientist) is a senior research associate at the Laboratory for advanced analysis of neuroimages, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He has a great interest in developing electrophysiological and neuroimaging protocols in migraine with aura research, primarily focused on discovering biomarkers for different levels of migraine aura complexity. He also aims to incorporate a multidisciplinary approach in headache research to boost advancements in the diagnosis and prediction of treatment outcomes. New Content Item