AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence and morphological features of Ponticulus Posticus (PP) in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients of Gulbarga population, to substantiate whether ponticulus posticus was the possible cause of chronic tension-type headaches and migraine. MATERIAL AND METHODS Five hundred patients were investigated with digital lateral cephalograms for the presenc...

BACKGROUND Chronic migraine is a prevalent disabling disease, with major health-related burden and poor quality of life. Long-term use of preventive medications carries risk of side effects. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to botulinum toxin-A (BTX-A) injection as preventive therapies for chronic migraine. METHODS A pilot, ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in patients diagnosed with chronic migraine with and without acute medication overuse. METHODS Seventy-two volunteers were recruited from a Family Health Program of the Paraisópolis community in São Paulo (SP), Brazil. These patients were submitted to a detailed headache questionnaire. All participants were submitted to physical an...

Migraine is the most common form of disabling primary headache and affects approximately 12% of studied Caucasian populations. Non-pharmacological management of migraine largely consists of lifestyle advice to help sufferers avoid situations in which attacks will be triggered. Preventive treatments for migraine should usually be considered on the basis of attack frequency, particularly its tren...

Migraine is a common, disabling disorder characterized by attacks of 4 to 72 h severe headache and associated autonomic neurological symptoms. In the present study we analyzed expression DNMT1, DNMT3a, DNMT3b in patients with migraine compared healthy controls as well association between levels DNMTs LINE-1 methylation status MTHFR C677T variant. Materials Method: A total 48 individuals we...

BACKGROUND Migraine is a chronic neurological disease with several trigger factors, including dietary, hormonal and environmental factors. PURPOSE To analyse precipitating factors in a sample of migraine patients. METHOD Two hundred consecutive migraine patients were interviewed about possible trigger factors for migraine attacks. RESULTS Most patients showed at least one dietary trigger,...

UNLABELLED Migraine can be triggered by many factors such as stress, sleep, fasting and environmental causes. There are few studies that evaluated migraine trigger factors in the adolescent population. METHODS A total of 100 participants from 10 to 19 years were subjected to a detailed headache questionnaire, with demographic and clinical data, and a headache diary including trigger factors d...

Sports related concussion has quickly become the most widely publicized neurological disorder with estimates ranging from 1.6 to 3.8 million affected individuals annually. The cervical spine plays a major role in concussion biomechanics. The cervical spine has also been implicated as playing a major role in triggering and maintaining migraine headache 1, 2 Patients with migraine especially chro...

Migraine is a chronic common neurological disorder. It an extremely disabling and significantly reduces the quality of life patients. Developments field fundamental research functional neuroimaging studies have improved understanding pathophysiology migraine. New specific drugs methods treatment appeared. They reduced severity headache attacks course disease. Therefore aim this work to analyze ...

Abstract Background Migraine is one of the most common neurological diseases around world and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) plays an important role in its pathophysiology. Therefore, present study, we evaluated efficacy monoclonal antibodies blocking CGRP ligand or receptor episodic chronic migraine. Objective The objective our study implementing a meta-analysis to systematically evalu...