2 Han Woo Park received his B.A. and M.A. from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Seoul National University of South Korea respectively, in Communication and Information, and his Ph.D. in the School of Informatics from State University of New York at Buffalo (2002). Currently, he is Research Associate at Networked Research & Digital Information (Nerdi), Netherlands Institute for Scientifi...

AIM To assess the clinical management of adults presenting with sudden, severe headache. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of consecutive adults presenting with sudden, severe headache to the emergency department (ED) or medical admissions unit at one teaching hospital. RESULTS Of 12 025 consecutive attendances over 3 months, 91 adults (0.8%, 95% CI 0.6-0.9%) presented...

In 1983 an international symposium entitled "Chronobiological Correlates of Headache" was held in Capri. This meeting provided an opportunity to debate new and stimulating aspects of headache, in particular the temporal pattern of headache and the periodicity of the underlying biological and environmental phenomena. Giuseppe Nappi presented his dyschronic hypothesis of primary headaches, which ...

OBJECTIVES Behçet's syndrome is an uncommon systemic disorder that involves the nervous system in 5% of cases. Headache may arise in conjunction with such complications but also appears to occur independently. We sought to define the prevalence of headache in an unselected group of patients with Behçet's syndrome, to characterize the headache syndromes and to identify what treatments are being ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence of headache and its interference in the activities of daily living (ADL) in female adolescent students. METHODS This descriptive cross-sectional study enrolled 228 female adolescents from a public school in the city of Petrolina, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil, aged ten to 19 years. A self-administered structured questionnaire about socio-demographic charact...

We applied the recent International Headache Society (IHS) criteria for headache related to spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) to 90 consecutive patients with a final diagnosis of SIH confirmed by cerebral magnetic resonance imaging with contrast. Orthostatic headache (developing within 2 h of standing or sitting up) was present in 67 patients (75%) but appeared within 15 min after stan...

To cite: Ceylan ME, Evrensel A, Noyan CO, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2016-216727 DESCRIPTION A 59-year-old man with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) was on antidepressant treatment for years. Six months ago, he got a severe headache on the left side of his head, reported pain behind his left eye, diplopia and ptosis displayed on his...

Headache disorders are common in children and adolescents. Even young male Wizards are disabled by them. In this article we review Harry Potter’s headaches as described in the biographical series by JK Rowling. Moreover, we attempt to classify them. Regrettably we are not privy to the Wizard system of classifying headache disorders and are therefore limited to the Muggle method, the Internation...

INTRODUCTION Some probable mechanisms have been described to the relationship between magnesium (Mg) level and migraine headache attacks. In the study reported here, we sought to determine the total Mg serum status of patients with migraine within and between the headache attacks and compare it with non-migraineurs. METHODS This study was performed on 50 migraineurs patients diagnosed accordi...

We were greatly saddened to hear the news of Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh's death at age of 79 in September 9, 2012. Professor Malekzadeh was a distinguished and highly respected Iranian Microbiologist and a member of the editorial board of the Iranian Biomedical Journal since October 1997. He was born in 1933 in city of Tabriz in Province of Azarbaijan, Iran. After graduated from high school...