Headache and Migraine

Both the frequency of headache days and the intake of acute medication were decreased with the use of a daily, single 20-minute eTNS session over the course of 3 months in an open-label, monocenter, prospective pilot trial.

Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, past AHS president and Editor in Chief of NeurologyLive, provides a preview of premier sessions that will take place at the upcoming annual meeting.

Physicians should ask patients about their history of headaches and monitor for possible indicators of stroke, especially among older individuals who are already at increased risk.

Food insecurity and migraine, anxiety sensitivity and migraine severity, supraorbital stimulation to prevent chronic migraine-find summaries of these and other recent findings here.

The neurological symptoms of migraine aura are generally attributed to cortical spreading depression/depolarization, although that hypothesis does have its detractors. The question of whether CSD triggers migraine headache remains controversial.

The staff neurologist at Cleveland Clinic’s Mellen Center for MS shared her insight into the use of telemedicine in an outpatient setting across a number of subspecialties in neurology and how it can supplement care going forward.

The professor of neurology at both the University of California San Francisco and King’s College, London, spoke about the results from a phase 2b/3 study evaluating atogepant for prevention of migraine.

Neurology News Network for the week ending June 8, 2019.

Emgality (galcanezumab-gnlm) is the first FDA-approved drug that reduces the frequency of headache attacks.

The program director of neurology at Zucker School of Medicine, Northwell Health, reviewed the contributions of neurologist S. Weir Mitchell, MD, and how today’s neurologists can gain insights for their own practice from Mitchell’s complicated history.