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A New Approach to Migraine Treatment: Found in Translation?
By Neil Andrews |
A preclinical study reports that targeting an enzyme with a crucial role in protein synthesis improves hypersensitivity in rodent models of migraine. The strategy has promising therapeutic potential to treat migraine in people.
Read More The Response to Triptans: What Counts as Success? What Counts as Failure?
By Fred Schwaller |
A consensus panel of the European Headache Federation provides definitions of triptan responders and non-responders. The effort could improve migraine treatment and standardize research.
Read More Improving Headache Diagnosis with Artificial Intelligence
By Kayt Sukel |
A recent proof-of-concept study shows that natural language processing and machine learning can accurately classify migraine versus cluster headache.
Read More Why Does Sumatriptan Only Work for Headache Disorders?
By Lincoln Tracy |
A new study further advances the case that the drug suppresses central sensitization, acting only in the trigeminal nociceptive system.
Read More When a Migraine Lasts for Days: Gaining a Sense of the Scope of the Problem
By Neil Andrews |
A new study provides the first population-based estimate of the incidence of status migrainosus.
Read More Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Chronic Pain, Including Migraine: More Than Black versus White
By Neil Andrews |
A new study examines pain prevalence in Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, multiracial and Native American adults in the United States. The work finds that differences between Black and White groups pale in comparison to differences between other racial/ethnic groups.
Read More Understanding the Links Between Migraine and Vascular Health
By Kayt Sukel |
A new study finds that higher vascular risk scores are associated with lower chances of active or incident migraine.
Read More Mindfulness and Migraine: Is There a Link?
By Lincoln Tracy |
A new replication and extension study finds little to connect the trait of mindfulness with pain in healthy controls, nor is it associated with improvements in headache in people with migraine.
Read More A Better Way to Classify Migraine: Linking Symptoms to Patterns of Brain Activity
By Fred Schwaller |
“Episodic” versus “chronic” migraine is not a biologically meaningful distinction, according to a new fMRI study.
Read More More Than Meets the (Human) Eye: Headache Researchers Use Facial Detection Software as an Automated Readout of Pain in Mice
By Lincoln Tracy |
The new approach accurately detects squinting in response to CGRP and amylin, and proves superior to a manual strategy.
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