Headache and Migraine

Vincent Martin, MD, president of the National Headache Foundation, provided insight on the ongoing challenges of treatment optimization for patients with chronic migraine.

Sait Ashina, MD, and Jessica Ailani, MD, comment on the importance of individualized treatment regimens for the management of migraine.

Experts in neurology, Drs Julio R. Vieira, Jessica Ailani, and Bradley Torphy review diagnostic tools available for migraine, including patient use of headache diaries.

Axsome expects to address the concerns in the letter and plans to resubmit AXS-07. The MoSEIC meloxicam-rizatriptan combination significantly reduced migraine symptoms and pain compared with placebo and both active agents in a pair of phase 3 trials.

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Vincent Martin, MD, president of the National Headache Foundation, discussed the MOTS trial, a non-inferiority study aimed at understanding treatment strategies with preventives for chronic migraine.

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Expert clinicians offer their insight on the associations between stroke and COVID-19, treatment for traumatic brain injury, the latest on aducanumab, priorities for research in migraine, and more, from the 2022 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting.

Jessica Ailani, MD, and Bradley Torphy, MD, discern the signs of migraine and comment on the importance of ensuring accurate diagnosis for patients.

Drs Bradley Torphy and Julio R. Vieira share insight on approaching the diagnosis of migraine as well as current challenges in diagnosis.

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The chair and vice-chair of the Headache and Facial Pain Section of the American Academy of Neurology provided insight on projects they feel are needed to advance the care of patients with migraine-related disorders. [WATCH TIME: 4 minutes]

David Kudrow, MD, provides expert insight on the newest options for migraine management and prevention.

Andrew C. Charles, MD; Jessica Ailani, MD; and Sait Ashina, MD, discuss the impact of migraine on a patient’s quality of life and share strategies for reducing the clinical burden of disease.

Andrew C. Charles, MD, and Sait Ashina, MD, provide an overview of the pathophysiology of migraine and discuss its 5 clinical phases.

In addition to reductions in monthly migraine days, participants on erenuamb demonstrated improvements on patient-reported outcomes and physicians’ assessments of migraine severity.

The chair and vice-chair of the Headache and Facial Pain Section of the American Academy of Neurology discussed some of the key research needs for migraine care going forward. [WATCH TIME: 3 minutes]

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Over a 12-month treatment period, fremanezumab afforded significantly greater reductions in monthly migraine days and higher responder rates compared with placebo for patients with chronic migraine.

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A literature review of the evidence for erenumab (Aimovig; Amgen) treatment in migraine suggests that certain patients would benefit from initiating treatment at 140 mg rather than 70 mg and that the higher dose more effectively prevents progression to chronic disease.

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The mean bodyweight-normalized infant rimegepant dose was 0.0005 mg/kg/day, and the mean estimated relative infant dose was 0.51%, therefore indicating the study drug results in less than 1% relative infant dose in human milk.

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Among triptan non/past use and current use patients, investigators observed refill decreases of 15.3% and 16.8%, respectively, in the 9 months following rimegepant treatment.