…on to cover the most intractable of chronic headaches. Migraine was covered in appropriate detail from pathophysiology to current and future management; summarising it as a disorder of brain pain…
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…(especially tabes and locomotor ataxy), movement disorders, including “paralysis agitans” (Parkinson’s disease) and “scrivener’s palsy” (writer’s cramp), and migraine. The student of cognitive neurology is disappointed to learn from his…
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…wide-ranging presentation started with headache in pregnancy. She said migraine is the most frequent cause of headache in pregnancy, and she reviewed the migraine drugs that are safe to use…
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…friend Wilhelm Fliess (1858-1928) and to his wife he described his migraine [10]. He asserted that stimuli precipitated migraine by irritation of the meninges — an idea close to modern…
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…local enthusiasm. So, what is the problem? After all there are 2 million people in the UK with a neurological condition (excluding migraine) and we are spending over £2 billion…
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…paper,9 but suggested this may be advisable in older patients and those at high risk of having white matter lesions, e.g. vascular risk factors, migraine. They did allow for the…
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…annual conference will cover the leading advances in pain therapeutics, exploring late development clinical trials, atypical opioids, migraine treatments, such as Lasmiditan and Aimovig, novel discoveries in opioid-free analgesia and…
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…have found a statistical association between migraine and TGA. Is TGA a form of aura due to cortical spreading depression? But, if so, why do the typical age groups differ,…
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…having previously been in good health aside from occasional migraine (with perimenopausal onset3) and late life hypertension. An elective hip replacement in her eighties was certainly associated with change in…
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