Headache Migraine Advisor

Investigators examine the role of miRNAs in migraine, including understanding its pathogenesis, the population at risk, diagnosis, patient stratification, chronification risk factors, response to treatments, and miRNA-based therapeutic options.

New evidence increasingly points to migraine with aura as a separate entity from migraine without aura.

Investigators have found that hormonal treatment strategies are effective in preventing menstrual migraine, but other strategies are appropriate for lactation and pregnancy.

The potential for metabolic etiologies for migraine opens a whole new approach to treatment, particularly the opportunity to intervene much earlier in the process.

Researchers found evidence that in post-traumatic headache, magnetic resonance imaging was useful in some cases to identify which patients had migraines based on signs of white matter injury.