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Fighting for Cluster Relief

Key Questions What does a cluster attack feel like? What is the difference between migraine and cluster headache? What is the difference between episodic and chronic cluster headache? Do cluster headaches typically decline in occurrence or stop altogether as you age? What are the latest treatments approved for cluster headache?…

Brain-Related Comorbidities of Migraine

Interview Notes dawnbuse.com PubMed Albert Einstein College of Medicine Headache Cooperative of the Pacific Study: “Migraine in America symptoms and treatment (MAST) study: Baseline study methods, treatment patterns, and gender differences” Study: “Circadian features of cluster headache and migraine” Study: “Demographics, headache features, and comorbidity profiles in relation to headache…

CGRP Inhibitors for Migraine

Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) inhibitors represent a new class of drugs uniquely designed to treat migraine. There are two types of CGRP inhibitors: monoclonal antibodies which are designed for migraine prevention, and gepants which can be used as both preventive and acute migraine therapies. Several options are available within both…

Nazia Karsan, MRCP, PhD

Dr. Nazia Karsan is a neurologist currently working as a postdoctoral researcher within the Headache Group at King’s College London, led by Professor Peter Goadsby. She also facilitates a weekly children’s headache clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London with Dr. Prab Prabhakar. In her current role, she sees,…

What I Wish I Knew Before, About Migraine

If you experience chronic migraine you know just how difficult it can be. The pain and disability caused by frequent, debilitating attacks steals your happiness, time and energy. It leaves you feeling depleted and more vulnerable to a subsequent attack. Many of us call on everything we have within to…

Messoud Ashina, MD, PhD, DMSc

Messoud Ashina, MD, is a professor of neurology in the faculty of health and medical sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Professor Ashina received his Doctor of Medicine degree at the Azerbaijan Medical University. He completed his residency in neurology at the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Ashina received his PhD and…

Paul Mathew, Larry Newman

Paul G. Mathew, MD, DNBPAS, FAAN, FAHS completed his neurology residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, and then completed a fellowship in headache medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.  He is board certified in neurology and headache medicine.  He is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard…

Shuu-Jiun Wang, MD

Dr. Shuu-Jiun Wang is a practicing neurologist and director of the Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and the chair, professor and director of the Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University. Currently he is the chair of the Asian Regional Consortium of Headache. He was the president of the Taiwan…

Additional Links & Resources

Resources are listed in alphabetical order under each category. PATIENT COALITIONS Coalition for Headache And Migraine Patients [CHAMP] (USA) Global Patient Advocacy Coalition [GPAC] (Global) NATIONAL FOUNDATIONS American Migraine Foundation  (USA) Association of Migraine Disorders (USA) Clusterbusters Danielle Byron Henry Migraine Foundation (USA) European Migraine and Headache Alliance (EUR) Headache…

Deborah Friedman, MD, MPH, FAAN, FAHS

Dr. Deborah Friedman is a neurologist specializing in headache medicine and neuro-ophthalmology in Dallas. She was the founding director of the Headache and Facial Pain Program and Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She is board certified in neurology and headache medicine, and is…

Elizabeth Leroux, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Elizabeth Leroux is a well-respected headache neurologist currently practicing at the Montreal Neurological Clinic. Previous affiliations include the Montreal University Headache Clinic and the University of Calgary’s Calgary Headache Assessment and Management Program (CHAMP). Dr. Leroux is past president of the Canadian Headache Society, the founder and chair of…

Matthew Robbins, MD

Matthew S. Robbins, M.D., is the program director for the neurology residency and an associate professor of neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. His clinical practice focuses on patients with migraine, cluster headache, new daily persistent headache, other headache disorders, CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) leaks, and visual snow. He…

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