Headache News

Fortunately, in recent years, migraine has gained wider public and provider recognition as a complex and serious, chronic neurological disease that can profoundly impact a person’s quality of life.

Preliminary evidence suggests there is an association between monkeypox and neuropsychiatric complications, including encephalitis, confusion and seizures, a study published in EClinicalMedicine found.

Headache disorders in American veterans were higher for men than women in incidence related to trauma, but men had fewer encounters for headaches and fewer visits to headache specialists, according to a study published in Neurology.

The 2022 PAINWeek and BRAINWeek conferences, Sept. 6-9 and Sept. 28-30 in Las Vegas, will feature migraine tracks presented by the world-renowned Diamond Headache Clinic.

Digital therapeutics company Theranica announced it has received $45 million in investor funding, which the company will use to finance commercial expansion of its prescription migraine treatment device, Nerivio.

Fatigue and headache were the most common symptoms reported by people an average of 4 months after COVID-19 infection, according to research in Brain, Behavior, & Immunity.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Study participants with a history of migraine experienced less sleep apnea and hypoxia than those without migraine, according to a poster presented at the SLEEP meeting.

For adults with migraine and repeated preventive treatment failures, eptinezumab produced significant reductive effects compared with placebo, along with acceptable safety and tolerability, per a study published in Lancet Neurology.

Analyzing clinical phenotypes of race, ethnicity and sex, as well as history of concussions and depression, were crucial in determining risk for suicide attempts among youth in the United States, a study showed in JAMA Network Open.

Headache-related disability and PTSD symptom severity improved with cognitive behavioral therapy compared with usual care in United States military veterans with posttraumatic headache and PTSD, according to a study in JAMA Neurology.