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Headache and neck pain: Gabapentin as a possible treatment

Pain is a common situation and it is one of the most frequent presenting symptoms of different pathologies. Treating pain could be a precise request to the doctor, from the patient and his caregiver. Manageme...

Authors: Rita Moretti, Rodolfo M. Antonello, Paola Torre and Giuseppe Cazzato

Nitric oxide in primary headaches

Nitric oxide (NO) has been proposed to be a key molecule in migraine. Experimental evidence suggests its intervention in vasodilatation and activation of the trigeminovascular system as well as its involvemen...

Authors: Virgilio Gallai and Paola Sarchielli

Co-morbidity of migraine and epilepsy: a review of clinical features

Migraine and epilepsy are common neurological conditions that often co-exist. There are some common symptoms and in some patients there may be a diagnostic problem. The purpose of this study was to review the...

Authors: Danny Flanagan and Karabi Ghose

Chronic daily headache: biochemical and neurotransmitter abnormalities

Although chronic daily headache (CDH) represents one of the most relevant complaints of patients in headache centers, the mechanisms underlying the chronicization of head pain are poorly understood. Experimen...

Authors: Virgilio Gallai, Paola Sarchielli, Sergio Genco, Andrea Alberti and Giovanni D'Andrea

Genetic factors in migraine and chronic tension-type headache

Pathophysiological studies have dominated migraine research for several years. However, these studies are difficult to interpret because it is difficult to decide whether the observed phenomena are primary or...

Authors: Michael Bjørn Russell

Molecular genetics and migraine

Migraine carries a significant hereditary determination. Familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) has been recently linked to mutations in the CACNA1A gene on chromosome 19. CACNA1A codes for a subunit of a neural ...

Authors: Pasquale Montagna

CACNA1A gene mutations in familial hemiplegic migraine

Familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM) is an autosomal dominant subtpye of migraine with aura. A few years ago, the gene linked to FHM was identified. CACNA1A encodes a voltage-activated, pore-forming α1A subunit...

Authors: Arn M.J.M. van den Maagdenberg, Joerg Striessnig, Michel D. Ferrari and Rune R. Frants

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The hypnic headache syndrome: the first description of an Italian case

Authors: Giorgio Zanchin, Carlo Lisotto and Ferdinando Maggioni

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The debut of The Journal of Headache and Pain

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