Seventeen patients who ate fresh leaves of feverfew daily as prophylaxis against migraine participated in a double blind placebo controlled trial of the herb: eight patients received capsules containing freeze dried feverfew powder and nine placebo. Those who received placebo had a significant increase in the frequency and severity of headache, nausea, and vomiting with the emergence of untowar...

This paper considers the problem of modeling migraine severity assessments and their dependence on weather and time characteristics. We take on the viewpoint of a patient who is interested in an individual migraine management strategy. Since factors influencing migraine can differ between patients in number and magnitude, we show how a patient’s headache calendar reporting the severity measurem...

INTRODUCTION In this study, we investigated the association of migraine with the Variable Number of Tandem Repeats (VNTR), repeated as 27 base pair, gene polymorphism in intron 4 of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and the insertion/deletion of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphisms. METHODS One hundred and five migraine and ninety seven healthy female control subj...

how to cite this article: fayyazi a, khajeh a, ghazavi a, sangestani m. omega 3 in childhood migraines; a double blind randomized clinical trial. iran j child neurol. winter 2016; 10(1):9-13. abstract objective the effect of using omega-3 to prevent migraine attacks has been raised in recent studies. the majority of these studies have been conducted in adults. conversely, other studies have yet...

BACKGROUND There have been few studies on the relation between vitamin D and migraine. We investigated the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in migraine patients and compared it with a control group. We also evaluated the relationship of vitamin D deficiency with severity of migraine. METHODS 105 newly diagnosed migraine patients and 110 controls, matched for age, sex, socioeconomic status, ...

AIM To report the effects of greater occipital nerve (GON) blocks on refractory chronic migraine headache. METHODS Nine patients who were receiving the conventionally accepted preventive therapies underwent treatment with repeated GON block to control chronic migraine resistant to other treatments. GON blocking with lidocaine and normal saline mixture was administered by the same physician at...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Migraine and major depressive disorder (MDD) frequently co-occur, but it is unclear whether depression is associated with a specific subtype of migraine. The objective of this study was to investigate whether migraine is qualitatively different in MDD patients (N = 1816) and non-depressed controls (N = 3428). METHODS Migraine symptom data were analyzed using multi-g...

Introduction and objective: Migraine and major depressive disorder (MDD) frequently co-occur, but it is unclear whether depression is associated with a specific subtype of migraine. The objective of this study was to investigate whether migraine is qualitatively different in MDD patients (N1⁄4 1816) and non-depressed controls (N1⁄4 3428). Methods: Migraine symptom data were analyzed using multi...

OBJECTIVE To provide updated evidence-based recommendations for the preventive treatment of migraine headache. The clinical question addressed was: What pharmacologic therapies are proven effective for migraine prevention? METHODS The authors analyzed published studies from June 1999 to May 2009 using a structured review process to classify the evidence relative to the efficacy of various med...