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The debut of The Journal of Headache and Pain

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Transient global amnesia occurring as migraine aura

We describe a case of transient global amnesia (TGA) occurring as migraine aura. TGA prevalence is higher among migraineurs and has been ascribed to spreading depression in the hippocampus. Our patient, a 38-...

Authors: Pasquale Montagna, Angelina Cerullo and Pietero Cortelli

Vestibular disorders in migrainous children and adolescents

Recurrent vertigo is a special form of migraine in childhood. It is a periodic syndrome of childhood which was previously called migraine equivalent. Thirty young patients (less than 18 years of age) with mig...

Authors: Ágnes Szirmai and Viktor Farkas

An Italian pilot study on the use of the migraine disability assessment questionnaire

The migraine disability assessment questionnaire (MIDAS) is a recently developed, validated questionnaire for assessing the impact of migraine on individual patients. We carried out a pilot study to assess th...

Authors: Domenico D'Amico, Alessandra Ferraris, Licia Grazzi, Susanna Usai, Massimo Leone and Gennaro Bussone

Conjunctival congestion in SUNCT syndrome

The purpose of this observational-retrospective study was to assess which type of conjunctival injection and related phenomena are present during SUNCT attacks. We studied the videorecords of 23 SUNCT attacks...

Authors: Juan A. Pareja, Julia Pareja, Julio Yangüela and Pablo Gili

A population-based follow-up study of headache from age 7 to 22 years

To study changes in headache prevalence during childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, we performed a prospective long-term follow-up study on an unselected child population. Seven-year-old children, resi...

Authors: Minna Aromaa, Matti Sillanpää and Hillevi Aro

Trigeminal evoked potentials in cluster headache

We sought out alterations of early trigeminal evoked potenials (TEPs) in patients suffering from episodic cluster headache, in order to evaluate a possible direct involvement of the trigeminal nerve. The stud...

Authors: Massimo Leandri, Massimo Luzzani and Alberto Gottlieb

Pain reactivity in children with autistic disorder

Abnormal pain reactivity is often reported by the parents of children with autistic disorder (AD). This is an interesting feature because it could be related to some neurochemical findings frequently reported...

Authors: Roberto Militerni, Carmela Bravaccio, Carmelinda Falco, Stefano Puglisi-Allegra, Tiziana Pascucci and Cinzia Fico

Sumatriptan (50 and 100 mg) in repeated migraine attacks: a patient preference study

Oral sumatriptan in 100-mg tablets is an effective and well tolerated treatment for the acute migraine attack. Since the launch of that dose, further studies have suggested good efficacy also for lower doses....

Authors: Georgio Zanchin, Maurizio Roncolato and Laura Fabbri

Psychological and social stressors and psychiatric comorbidity in patients with migraine without aura from headache centers in Italy: a comparison with tension-type headache patients

A multicenter study was carried out to investigate the prevalence of psychosocial stressors and psychiatric comorbidity in patients suffering from migraine without aura (MWO) according to the International He...

Authors: Francomichele Puca

Molecular chronobiology

Recent years have seen exciting advances in the understanding of the mechanisms that underlie circadian rhythms in a variety of organisms, including mammals. Several key genes have been identified, whose prod...

Authors: Charalambos Panayiotis Kyriacou