Response to Oterino et al.: Analysis of endothelial precursor cells in chronic migraine: A case-control study We have carefully reviewed with great interest the article entitled ''Analysis of endothelial precursor cells in chronic migraine: A case-control study'' by Oterino et al. (1). The authors studied total endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) (CD34þ/KDRþ), EPC colony-forming units (CFUs), '...

Introduction: Due to the unwanted effects of the migraine headaches of the patient and the role played by excitement and stress in the development and exacerbation of such headaches, migraine headaches are considered among psychosomatic disorders affecting the psychological life of the patients. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy (CFT) for imp...

Chronic migraine, which affects approximately 2% of the population, results in substantial costs to individual sufferers and to society (1). Current treatment options for chronic migraine are often inadequate, with a proportion of chronic migraine patients being intractable to conventional therapy. Clearly, better treatment strategies are needed to reduce the burden from this common and disabli...

A questionnaire survey was conducted to clarify the headache situation in people with chronic during new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. on internet. The subjects were 600 women their 20s 40s who infected 7th wave of COVID-19 infection from July October 2022. Subjects (55.7%) had headaches at time infection, and most recuperating home. Other (excluding migraine) accounted for abo...

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...

epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders which a physician might come across in his career life. on the other hand, migraine is common disorders in society chronic headache such as migraine in epileptic patients give ride to difficulties in seizure treatment due to altering the sleeping pattern and calmness disarrangement. therefore, early diagnosis and suitable treatment in ep...

BACKGROUND The pathophysiological relationship between episodic migraine and chronic migraine is not fully understood. We aimed to examine transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) indices of cortical excitability in patients with episodic migraine (EM) and probable chronic migraine (PCM), and matched controls. METHODS Cortical excitability was assessed at baseline with two well-established met...

inequities in health need to be monitored and necessary actions should be taken to reduce them. this study aimed to determine the socioeconomic distribution of self-reported chronic diseases and self-assessed health (sah) in turkey and try to evaluate the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions.cross-sectional data from the turkish health survey conducted during year 2...

Differential diagnosis of primary headache disorders can be challenging for physicians. Although the association of headache with acute carbon monoxide intoxication is very well-defined, in refractory nonspecific headaches associated with chronic low dose exposure to carbon monoxide, CO intoxication is usually overlooked, mostly due to vague symptoms. Herein we present a 15-year-old female pati...

As a group, headache disorders are painful and disabling, impacting the lives of people with headache across multiple domains and reducing their ability to be productive and satisfied members of society. The majority of work examining psychological approaches to headache has occurred within the two most prevalent primary headache disorders: migraine and tension-type headache. Recent epidemiolog...