Cluster Headache Without Autonomic Symptoms: Why Is It different?

Cluster headache without autonomic symptoms: why is it different?

BACKGROUND Some patients with otherwise typical cluster headache (CH) have persistent attacks free of cranial autonomic symptoms (CAS). The factors responsible for this atypical presentation are not known. OBJECTIVES To identify factors associated to the absence of CAS in patients with CH. METHODS A prospective series of 157 patients with the diagnosis of CH was analyzed, comparing 148 typi...

Periodic autonomic dysfunction without pain in a patient with cluster headache.

Bodily moral disgust: what it is, how it is different from anger, and why it is an unreasoned emotion.

With the recent upswing in research interest on the moral implications of disgust, there has been uncertainty about what kind of situations elicit moral disgust and whether disgust is a rational or irrational player in moral decision making. We first outline the benefits of distinguishing between bodily violations (e.g., sexual taboos, such as pedophilia and incest) and nonbodily violations (e....

Cluster headache

Cluster headache (CH) is a primary headache disease characterized by recurrent short-lasting attacks (15 to 180 minutes) of excruciating unilateral periorbital pain accompanied by ipsilateral autonomic signs (lacrimation, nasal congestion, ptosis, miosis, lid edema, redness of the eye). It affects young adults, predominantly males. Prevalence is estimated at 0.5-1.0/1,000. CH has a circannual a...

Cluster headache.

INTRODUCTION The revised International Headache Society (IHS) criteria for cluster headache are: attacks of severe or very severe, strictly unilateral pain, which is orbital, supraorbital, or temporal pain, lasting 15 to 180 minutes and occurring from once every other day to eight times daily. METHODS AND OUTCOMES We conducted a systematic review and aimed to answer the following clinical que...