The migraine headache is a disease related to the neurovascular system, which affects 10%-20% of people, worldwide. Recent evidences suggested a relation between thiamine status and migraine headaches. The current study was undertaken to assess dietary intake of the thiamine in migraine patients and to evaluate its association with the frequency of migraine attacks. In a case-control design, th...

background: migraine is defined as a chronic disabling condition which influences all physical, mental, and social dimensions of quality of life. some 12-15% of the world population suffers from migraine. the disease is more common among women. the onset, frequency, duration, and severity of migraine attacks may be affected by other predisposing factors including nutrition. therefore, determini...

  in order to determine the frequency of migraine and depression and the realtionship between them a study was carried out among 238 randomly selected medical students of Kerman university of medical sciences during April 1995.back depression inventory(BDI) questionaire was used to determine deoression.in addition a questionaire in relation to migraine based on the international classification...

Background: Migraine and other recurrent headaches are considered a major public health concern. Levetiracetam, a broad spectrum anti-epileptic have been used in migraine prophylaxis. Objectives: Assessment the efficacy of levetiracetam on migraine in comparison to sodium valproate. Materials and Methods: This randomized double blind clinical trial was performed on patients with migraine ...

Introduction Migraine sufferers frequently complain of cervical pain during and in-between migraine attacks studies suggest that chronic neck is a risk factor for high-frequency migraine, including migraine. Increased headache frequency are, in turn, independently associated with cephalic cutaneous allodynia, known increased frequency. Objective To verify the influence patients has on muscle pe...

BACKGROUND Migraine is a chronic disease that affects nearly 6% of men and 18% of women worldwide. There are various drugs, which can successfully decrease migraine symptoms and frequency of migraine attacks, but these drugs usually are expensive. Hence, this study aimed to assess the effects of pyridoxine supplementation on severity, frequency and duration of migraine attacks as well as headac...

The cerebral cortex serves a primary role in the pathogenesis of migraine. This aberrant brain activation in migraine can be noninvasively detected with magnetoencephalography (MEG). The objective of this study was to investigate the differences in motor cortical activation between attacks (ictal) and pain free intervals (interictal) in children and adolescents with migraine using both low- and...

OBJECTIVE To describe the relationship between mood/anxiety disorders and migraine headaches emphasizing the frequency of episodes based in a cross-sectional analysis in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health. BACKGROUND It has been suggested that frequency of migraine headaches can be directly associated with the presence of psychiatric disorders. METHODS Migraine headaches (Inte...