Napping behavior in adults with episodic migraine: a six-week prospective cohort study
Source : https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab273
AbstractStudy objectives. Patients with migraine commonly endorse napping as a strategy for headache pain relief, but also experience high rates of sleep distur
Conclusions:Our findings suggest that naps may be an uncommonly used behavioral strategy for prolonged migraine attacks and do not contribute to nightly sleep disturbance. Future studies are needed to examine the acute analgesic effects of daytime napping in patients with migraine.
The prevalence and characteristics of visceral autonomic symptoms among migraineurs: A population-based study - Mansoureh Togha, Fahimeh Martami, Elham Jafari, Shadi Ariyanfar, Seyedeh Melika Hashemi, 2021
Source : https://doi.org/10.1177/03331024211056849
Background There is limited evidence about visceral autonomic symptoms in the different phases of migraine attack. We evaluated the prevalence of these symptoms in migraineurs before, during, and after headache...
Conclusion:This study demonstrated that visceral symptoms were common in migraine sufferers not only during attacks but also in the premonitory and postdrome phases. Positive visceral symptoms were also associated with more burdensome headache attacks. Therefore, recognizing the phenotypic presentation of associated symptoms of migraine,...
Hormonal therapies in migraine management: current perspectives on patient selection and risk management
Source : https://doi.org/10.1080/14737175.2021.2003706
Abstract The link between sex hormones and migraines has long been investigated but the mechanisms underlying this altered interaction are not yet fully understood. Herein, we retrace the knowledge on...
Article highlights:
Estrogens fluctuations could trigger migraine attacks and estrogens intake is a risk factors for developing stroke.
Depression, anxiety, ischemic heart diseases and stroke, share a common substrate with migraine.
Migraine is the complex result of an interaction of several pathways and hormone/neuroinflammation link seems...
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Huma Sheikh, CEO, NY Neurology Medicine, PC4yrThis is an important topic esp since there is information that migraine and possibly addition of hormone is a risk factor for stroke.
Alterations in Pain Processing Circuitries in Episodic Migraine
Source : https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1029203/v1
BackgroundThe precise underlying mechanisms of migraine remain unknown. Although we have previously shown acute orofacial pain evoked changes within the brainstem of individuals with migraine, we do not know if...
Conclusions: These data reveal that the modulation of brainstem pain modulatory
49 areas by higher cortical regions may be aberrant during pain and these alterations in 250 this descending pain modulatory pathway manifests exclusively prior to the 51 development of a migraine attack.
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Huma Sheikh, CEO, NY Neurology Medicine, PC4yrThis is a good review.
Headache and immunological/autoimmune disorders: a comprehensive review of available epidemiological evidence with insights on potential underlying mechanisms - PubMed
Source : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34749743/
Several lines of evidence support a role of the immune system in headache pathogenesis, with particular regard to migraine. Firstly, alterations in cytokine profile and in lymphocyte subsets have been...
Therefore, an association between headache and immunological/autoimmune disorders has been thoroughly investigated in the last years. The knowledge of this possible association may have relevant implications in the clinical practice when deciding diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. The present review summarizes findings to date regarding the...
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Huma Sheikh, CEO, NY Neurology Medicine, PC4yrThis is a great review.