Neurology Advisor Contributing Writer

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

Multimodal MRI in concussed athletes highlights persistent effects on CBF and mean diffusivity 1 year after medical clearance to return to play.

Researchers showed that 60-s nasal air suction can provide an immediate relief from migraine pain as well as reduce migraine induced suborbital tenderness in adolescents.

In nontraumatic headaches intravenous magnesium sulfate was found to be beneficial in controlling pain and aura duration

Investigators posit that their findings suggest that the genetic polymorphism rs2651899 of the PR/SET domain 16 gene is associated with migraine subtypes.

Researchers suggest that analgesic overuse headache might vary according to the phenotype of the headache and the class of the analgesic.

The authors refute a systematic review and meta-analysis of literature on greater occipital nerve block for the treatment of chronic migraine headaches by Shauly and colleagues and published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, citing extensive limitations and claiming the study ultimately raises more questions than answers.

Researchers explored the reasons for discontinuing prescription medications in patients with migraines.

Researchers sought to determine whether atrial fibrillation increases risk for adverse events in hospitalized patients with ischemic stroke .

Researchers found data that showed in older adults migraines are a risk for all-cause dementia, including Alzheimer disease.

Patients treated with BotoxA experienced stabilization following discontinuation.

Based upon a study in The Netherlands, researchers posit that high-frequency episodic migraine should be included in the International Classification of Headache Disorders-3 diagnostic criteria for chronic migraine.

Researchers aimed to identify the ocular symptoms driving the reduction in visual quality of life in patients with migraine.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy was shown to reduce headache-related disability and disability related to migraine attack-level in adult patients with migraine.

Findings suggest that therapeutic noninvasive brain stimulation for migraine should be focused on excitatory stimulation on the primary motor cortex.

In China, researchers found that the Subjective Visual Vertical Bucket test was accurate to discern central vestibular disorder from vestibular migraine.

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.

The data used in the study were extracted independently by 2 researchers, using a standardized data extraction form: study design, primary outcome, disease characteristics, interventions, and comparators.

Noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation as a preventive treatment for patients with episodic migraines reduced migraine days by more than 50%.

In patients with tension headaches, researchers in South Korea found that the incidences for major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and suicidality were higher.

In the Boston, Massachusetts area, researchers found data that showed during the summertime humidity precipitated migraine headaches, yet in the wintertime air pollution is associated with a higher incidence of migraine headaches.

Pathological gambling was recently identified as a complication of Parkinson disease and its pharmacological treatment, especially high-dose dopaminergic agonists.

Researchers analyzed the clinical features and outcomes of infections in the central nervous system (CNS) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and created a simplified scoring system to differentiate CNS infections from neuropsychiatric SLE.

In this study of patients with left-sided infective endocarditis, investigators analyzed how anticoagulation affects stroke occurrence and bleeding complications.

Although rates of burnout and satisfaction with work-life integration improved among US physicians between 2014 and 2017, they still face an increased risk for burnout compared with workers in other fields.

Investigators analyzed whether high LDL-C causally relates to risk for retinopathy, neuropathy, chronic kidney disease, and peripheral artery disease in the general population.

Researchers collected data to determine the association between levels of B12 and migraine.

Investigators found data that showed many patients with chronic migraine who receive onabotulinumtoxinA injections experience wear off.

Researchers posit that their study delineates distinct phenotypes of headache attacks and facial pain attacks.

Further understanding of the recently recognized symptomatic, measurable prodrome phase in multiple sclerosis will increase clinicians’ ability to diagnose and manage the disease earlier.