Diagnosis and management of migraine in ten steps

AK Eigenbrodt, H Ashina, S Khan, HC Diener… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Migraine is a disabling primary headache disorder that directly affects more than one billion
people worldwide. Despite its widespread prevalence, migraine remains under-diagnosed …

Migraine: disease characterisation, biomarkers, and precision medicine

M Ashina, GM Terwindt, MAM Al-Karagholi, I De Boer… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Migraine is a disabling neurological disorder, diagnosis of which is based on clinical criteria.
A shortcoming of these criteria is that they do not fully capture the heterogeneity of migraine …

Pathophysiology of migraine: a disorder of sensory processing

PJ Goadsby, PR Holland… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Plaguing humans for more than two millennia, manifest on every continent studied, and with
more than one billion patients having an attack in any year, migraine stands as the sixth …

The pathophysiology of migraine: implications for clinical management

A Charles - The Lancet Neurology, 2018 - thelancet.com
The understanding of migraine pathophysiology is advancing rapidly. Improved
characterisation and diagnosis of its clinical features have led to the view of migraine as a …

A phase‐by‐phase review of migraine pathophysiology

DW Dodick - Headache: the journal of head and face pain, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Migraine is a common, disabling neurological disorder characterized by multiple phases:
premonitory, aura, headache, postdrome, and interictal. Our understanding of the …

Migraine: multiple processes, complex pathophysiology

R Burstein, R Noseda, D Borsook - Journal of Neuroscience, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Migraine is a common, multifactorial, disabling, recurrent, hereditary neurovascular
headache disorder. It usually strikes sufferers a few times per year in childhood and then …

Cortical spreading depression and migraine

AC Charles, SM Baca - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2013 - nature.com
Cortical spreading depression (CSD), a slowly propagated wave of depolarization followed
by suppression of brain activity, is a remarkably complex event that involves dramatic …

Cortical spreading depression closes paravascular space and impairs glymphatic flow: implications for migraine headache

AJ Schain, A Melo-Carrillo, AM Strassman… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Functioning of the glymphatic system, a network of paravascular tunnels through which
cortical interstitial solutes are cleared from the brain, has recently been linked to sleep and …

Acute migraine treatment in adults

WJ Becker - Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
There are many options for acute migraine attack treatment, but none is ideal for all patients.
This study aims to review current medical office‐based acute migraine therapy in adults and …

The evolution of a migraine attack–a review of recent evidence

A Charles - Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A migraine attack is an extraordinarily complex brain event that takes place over hours to
days. This review focuses on recent human studies that shed light on the evolution of a …