The diary of the Japanese poet Sogi (1421–1502) “Shirakawa kiko” (“Journey to Shirakawa Barrier”, 1468) is analyzed. sacred place, sung in lyrics past, beginning song (utamakura). divided into two parts. This result development genre art renga (connected stanzas) poets. subject study prose part. It reveals an increased suggestiveness (yojo) artistic speech. In reminiscent variety, a picture int...

Patients with chronic daily headache and overuse of analgesics, triptans, or other acute headache compounds, are considered to suffer from medication-overuse headache (MOH). This implies that medication overuse is the cause of headache chronification. It remains a key question why only two-thirds of patients with chronic migraine-like headache and overuse of pain medication improve after detoxi...

One of the greatest challenges within the field of headache is the identification of secondary headache disorders. Physicians are particularly fearful of missing serious causes of secondary headache disorders such as brain tumors, subarachnoid hemorrhage, temporal arteritis, meningitis, and stroke. Missing one of these disorders could result in significant morbidity to the patient and leave the...

BACKGROUND The mechanism of veisalgia cephalgia or hangover headache is unknown. Despite a lack of mechanistic studies, there are a number of theories positing congeners, dehydration, or the ethanol metabolite acetaldehyde as causes of hangover headache. METHODS We used a chronic headache model to examine how pure ethanol produces increased sensitivity for nociceptive behaviors in normally hy...

active video gaming and other energy-balance related behaviours in adolescents: a 24-hour recall diary study. Abstract Background

conclusions our findings support a number of statistically significant positive associations between air pollutants and the number of ed visits for headache and migraine. background associations between ambient air pollution and emergency department (ed) visits for headache and migraine were examined in a multi-city study during the period of april 2004 to december 2011 in nine cities across on...

Sally Reyes-Morales is a mathematical statistician in the Division of Price Statistical Methods, Branch of Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Diary surveys are often used to collect information on daily activities such as consumer spending. They are particularly useful for collecting daily records of small frequently purchased items, which are normally difficult to recall...