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  1. Chronic migraine (CM) prevalence ranges around 1–5%. Most of these patients usually treat their acute attacks with triptans, whose efficacy is extremely variable. A genetic basis for migraine is evident and ma...

    Authors: Giovanna Gentile, Serena Missori, Marina Borro, Alisa Sebastianelli, Maurizio Simmaco and Paolo Martelletti
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2010 11:202
  2. A number of women with migraine experience increased incidence of attacks during the perimenstrual period. The Appendix of the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD II) describes two types o...

    Authors: Kjersti Grøtta Vetvik, E. Anne MacGregor, Christofer Lundqvist and Michael Bjørn Russell
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2010 11:197
  3. In order to promote education on headache disorders, European Headache Federation (EHF) in conjunction with National Headache Societies organizes educational courses meeting uniform standards according to prev...

    Authors: Rigmor Jensen, Dimos D. Mitsikostas, Dominique Valade and Fabio Antonaci
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2010 11:195
  4. Inhalation of hyperbaric oxygen has been used as an experimental treatment for migraine and pure oxygen is an established treatment for cluster headache. Intravenous glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) is an established...

    Authors: Dorthe Daugaard, Peer Tfelt-Hansen, Lars Lykke Thomsen, Helle Klingenberg Iversen and Jes Olesen
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2010 11:190
  5. Hemiplegic migraines are characterised by attacks of migraine with aura accompanied by transient motor weakness. There are both familial and sporadic subtypes, which are now recognised as separate entities by ...

    Authors: Martin Pablo Grecco, Miguel Pieroni, Marcela Otero, Jorge Luis Ferreiro and María de Lourdes Figuerola
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2010 11:188
  6. Primary stabbing headache (PSH) is a short-lasting but troublesome headache disorder, which has been known for several decades. The head pain occurs as a single stab or as a series of stabs generally involving...

    Authors: Enrico Ferrante, Paolo Rossi, Cristina Tassorelli, Carlo Lisotto and Giuseppe Nappi
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2010 11:189
  7. We analyzed the incidence, pattern and location of headache in consecutive 200 patients with proven diagnosis of CVT to identify an association between localization of headache and site of sinus involvement. H...

    Authors: Mohammad Wasay, Suleman Kojan, Alper I. Dai, George Bobustuc and Zubair Sheikh
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2010 11:186
  8. The objective of this paper was to assess prevalence and characteristics of anxiety and depression in migraine without aura and tension-type headache, either isolated or in combination. Although the associatio...

    Authors: Ettore Beghi, Gennaro Bussone, Domenico D’Amico, Pietro Cortelli, Sabina Cevoli, Gian Camillo Manzoni, Paola Torelli, Maria Clara Tonini, Giovanni Allais, Roberto De Simone, Florindo D’Onofrio, Sergio Genco, Franca Moschiano, Massimiliano Beghi and Sara Salvi
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2010 11:187
  9. Migraine is one of the ten most disabling disorders worldwide, and despite recent developments in the management of migraine, it remains underdiagnosed and undertreated. Guidelines for the management of migrai...

    Authors: Fabio Antonaci, Cezar Dumitrache, Ilaria De Cillis and Marta Allena
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:179
  10. It has been hypothesized that abnormalities of information processing in migraine may be attributed to impairment of cerebral maturation. However, the most evidences for this hypothesis have come from cross-se...

    Authors: Michael Siniatchkin, Anne Jonas, Huelya Baki, Andreas van Baalen, Wolf-Dieter Gerber and Ulrich Stephani
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:180
  11. Headache associated with moyamoya disease (HAMD) is common in moyamoya disease. However, the characteristics and classification of HAMD are largely unknown. We present a case of a 39-year-old woman with HAMD. ...

    Authors: Victor Zach, David Bezov, Richard B. Lipton and Sait Ashina
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:181
  12. In patients with migraine, the various sensory stimulation modalities, including visual stimuli, invariably fail to elicit the normal response habituation. Whether this lack of habituation depends on abnormal ...

    Authors: Gianluca Coppola, Antonio Currà, Mariano Serrao, Cherubino Di Lorenzo, Manuela Gorini, Elisa Porretta, Alessia Alibardi, Vincenzo Parisi and Francesco Pierelli
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:177
  13. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of migraine in the general Spanish population and its association with socio-demographic and lifestyle factors, self-reported health status, and co-morbidit...

    Authors: César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Valentín Hernández-Barrera, Pilar Carrasco-Garrido, Cristina Alonso-Blanco, Domingo Palacios-Ceña, Silvia Jiménez-Sánchez and Rodrigo Jiménez-García
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:176
  14. The aim of this study was to record the demographic and epidemiological data on adult patients with headache who attend the emergency department (ED) and the diagnoses that made by the neurologists in the ED o...

    Authors: Emmanouil V. Dermitzakis, Georgios Georgiadis, Jobst Rudolf, Dimitra Nikiforidou, Panagiotis Kyriakidis, Ioannis Gravas, Chrysanthi Bouziani and Iakovos Tsiptsios
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:178
  15. The epidemiology of headache in Arab countries was systematically reviewed through Medline identification of four papers reporting headache prevalence in the Arab nations of Qatar, Saudi Arabia (2 papers) and ...

    Authors: Hani T. S. Benamer, Dirk Deleu and Donald Grosset
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:173
  16. The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT 3) performed in 2006–2008 is a replication of the cross-sectional survey from 1995 to 1997 (HUNT 2). The aim of the present study was to assess the sensitivity and specifi...

    Authors: Knut Hagen, John-Anker Zwart, Anne Hege Aamodt, Kristian Bernhard Nilsen, Geir Bråthen, Grethe Helde, Marit Stjern, Erling A. Tronvik and Lars Jacob Stovner
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:174
  17. Epicrania fugax (EF) has been recently described as a paroxysmal head pain starting in a focal cranial area of the posterior scalp and rapidly spreading forward to the ipsilateral eye or nose along a linear or...

    Authors: María Luz Cuadrado, Lidia Gómez-Vicente, Jesús Porta-Etessam, María Azahara Marcos-de-Vega, Beatriz Parejo-Carbonell and Jorge Matías-Guiu
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:172
  18. Chronic cluster headache (CCH) is a disabling primary headache, considering the severity and frequency of pain attacks. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been used to treat severe refractory CCH, but assessment...

    Authors: Denys Fontaine, Yves Lazorthes, Patrick Mertens, Serge Blond, Gilles Géraud, Nelly Fabre, Malou Navez, Christian Lucas, Francois Dubois, Sebastien Gonfrier, Philippe Paquis and Michel Lantéri-Minet
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:169
  19. Serotonin is involved in several central nervous system functions including pain threshold, mood regulation and drug reward. Overuse of acute medications is commonly identified as a causative factor for medica...

    Authors: Sabina Cevoli, Nadia Marzocchi, Sabina Capellari, Chiara Scapoli, Giulia Pierangeli, Daniela Grimaldi, Federica Naldi, L. Alberto Pini, Pasquale Montagna and Pietro Cortelli
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:168
  20. The majority of patients with migraine headaches are treated in non-specialized institutions though data on treatment outcomes are largely derived from tertiary care centers. The current non-interventional stu...

    Authors: Gereon Nelles, Lukas Schmitt, Thomas Humbert, Veit Becker, Petra Sandow, Karin Bornhoevd, Dirk Fritzsche and Barbara Schäuble
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:163
  21. Authors: Marta Allena, Zaza Katsarava and Giuseppe Nappi
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:166
  22. We describe a woman who developed postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) located on the skin areas of the left ophthalmic division of the fifth cranial nerve without ocular involvement. PHN was associated with tinnitus,...

    Authors: Milena De Marinis and Valter Santilli
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:167
  23. We investigated whether children affected by tension-type headache and migraine without aura, compared with a healthy control group that was matched by age, culturally and socioeconomically display a diverse i...

    Authors: Pasquale Parisi, Alberto Verrotti, Maria Chiara Paolino, Antonella Urbano, Mariangela Bernabucci, Rosa Castaldo and Maria Pia Villa
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:165
  24. Increasing evidence shows that migraine, typically considered as an episodic disease, is a chronic and, in some patients, progressive disorder. Among neuromodulators used for migraine prevention, topiramate ha...

    Authors: Luigi Ruiz and Delfina Ferrandi
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:164
  25. Nummular headache (NH) is a clinical picture characterized by head pain that is exclusively felt in a round, elliptical, or oval area of the head. Although there is evidence supporting an organic origin for NH...

    Authors: César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Cecilia Peñacoba-Puente, Almudena López-López, Begoña Valle, María Luz Cuadrado, Francisco J. Barriga and Juan A. Pareja
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:161
  26. The management of medication overuse headache (MOH) is based essentially on the withdrawal of the overused drug(s). Drug withdrawal is performed according to widely differing protocols, both within and across ...

    Authors: Paolo Rossi, Rigmor Jensen, Giuseppe Nappi and Marta Allena
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:159

    The Erratum to this article has been published in The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 11:s10194-009-0175-6

  27. After the triptans, a calcitonin gene-related peptide blocker (telcagepant) is the first acute medicine that has been developed primarily for treatment of acute migraine. Otherwise, the new drugs have been dev...

    Authors: Lars Jacob Stovner, Erling Tronvik and Knut Hagen
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:156
  28. We describe the case of a 40-year-old woman, affected by episodic cluster headache, who presented with a cluster headache triggered by exposure to high altitude. Her attacks were refractory to sumatriptan, ver...

    Authors: Edoardo Mampreso, Ferdinando Maggioni, Federica Viaro, Caterina Disco and Giorgio Zanchin
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:160
  29. Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor antagonists are a new treatment principle in acute migraine attacks. Intravenous olcegepant 2.5 mg resulted in 66% headache relief after 2 h, whereas subcutaneou...

    Authors: Peer C. Tfelt-Hansen
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:157
  30. The aim of this 6-month, prospective, multicenter study of 398 children and adolescents with primary headaches was to collect data on headache treatment in neuropediatric departments. Treatments were compared ...

    Authors: Jean-Christophe Cuvellier, Anne Donnet, Évelyne Guégan-Massardier, Fatima Nachit-Ouinekh, Dominique Parain and Louis Vallée
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:158
  31. Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache (SUNCT) and first division trigeminal neuralgia (TN) are rare and very similar periorbital unilateral pain syndromes. Few cases of SUNCT are associated with poste...

    Authors: Alessandro Panconesi, Maria Letizia Bartolozzi and Leonello Guidi
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:152
  32. A hypofunctionality of Gi proteins has been found in migraine patients. The fixed combination of indomethacin, prochlorperazine and caffeine (Indoprocaf) is a drug of well-established use in the acute treatmen...

    Authors: Carla Ghelardini, Nicoletta Galeotti, Elisa Vivoli, Irene Grazioli and Carla Uslenghi
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:151
  33. The association of patent foramen ovale (PFO) and atrial septal aneurysm (ASA) with migraine headache attack (MHA) has been clearly shown. The same findings have been recently demonstrated also in cluster head...

    Authors: Ali Reza Moaref, Peyman Petramfar, Kamran Aghasadeghi, Mahmood Zamirian, Mohammad Bagher Sharifkazemi, Shahed Rezaian, Sasan Afifi, Najaf Zare and Gholam Reza Rezaian
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:154
  34. Short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) syndrome is a rare trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia. The cases of SUNCT with attacks that affected both sides simu...

    Authors: Jasna Zidverc-Trajkovic, Svetlana Vujovic, Ana Sundic, Aleksandra Radojicic and Nadezda Sternic
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:146
  35. The association between estrogens “withdrawal” and attacks of migraine without aura is well-known. The aim of the study was to examine the features of laser evoked potentials (LEPs), including habituation, in ...

    Authors: Marina de Tommaso, Massimiliano Valeriani, Michele Sardaro, Claudia Serpino, Olimpia Di Fruscolo, Eleonora Vecchio, Rosanna Cerbo and Paolo Livrea
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:150
  36. The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the relevance of the symptom “headache” in kidney transplanted patients, since few studies have considered headache as a clinically significant complication...

    Authors: Ferdinando Maggioni, Maria Cristina Mantovan, Paolo Rigotti, Roberto Cadrobbi, Federico Mainardi, Edoardo Mampreso, Mario Ermani, Silvia Cortelazzo and Giorgio Zanchin
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:148
  37. Migraine is a common disorder in childhood and adolescence. Studies on adults show the effectiveness and tolerability of riboflavin in migraine prevention, while data on children are scarce. This retrospective...

    Authors: Maria Condò, Annio Posar, Annalisa Arbizzani and Antonia Parmeggiani
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:142
  38. Headache is one of the most common manifestations of non-traumatic intracranial hemorrhage, which is an uncommon, but not rare, cause of cardiac arrest in adults. History of a sudden headache preceding collaps...

    Authors: Joji Inamasu, Satoru Miyatake, Hideto Tomioka, Masashi Nakatsukasa, Akira Imai, Kenichi Kase and Kenji Kobayashi
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:138
  39. SUNCT has been reported in association with abnormalities of the brainstem and pituitary region. We present a patient with a history of left optic nerve hypoplasia, mild hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction, and...

    Authors: Brett J. Theeler and Kevin R. Joseph
    Citation: The Journal of Headache and Pain 2009 10:135