Peer-reviewed medical journal articles on cluster headache and related conditions.
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- Treating Cluster Headache with Psychedelics May 31, 2019Any discussion of cluster headache eventually includes treating cluster headache with psychedelics as an alternative to medical treatment.
- Why Patients Treat Cluster Headache With Illegal Drugs May 21, 2019Researchers from Italy wanted to understand why patients chose to treat cluster headache with illegal drugs instead of prescribed treatments.
- Maryland Representative Champions Home Oxygen Use for Cluster Headache April 15, 2018Maryland Representative Champions Home Oxygen Use for Cluster Headache
- Diagnosis, pathophysiology, and management of cluster headache February 3, 2018Cluster headache is a trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia characterised by extremely painful, strictly unilateral, short-lasting headache attacks accompanied by ipsilateral autonomic symptoms or the sense of restlessness and agitation, or both.
- The differential effect of trigeminal vs. peripheral pain stimulation on visual processing and memory encoding is influenced by pain-related fear. January 28, 2018Compared to peripheral pain, trigeminal pain elicits higher levels of fear, which is assumed to enhance the interruptive effects of pain on concomitant cognitive processes. In this fMRI study we examined the behavioral and neural effects of trigeminal (forehead) and peripheral (hand) pain on visual processing and memory encoding.
- Researchers Find Evidence Explaining Why Headaches are More Severe Than Body Pain January 26, 2018A recent study, using laboratory mice, discovered a physical link within the brain that may explain why headaches are more severe than pain we experience in other parts of the body. Pain perception involves both the physical sensation of pain and the emotional response to that pain. There are physical structures within the brain that ...
- Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Patterns Among Patients Diagnosed With Cluster Headache in U.S. Healthcare Claims Data October 26, 2017The burden of cluster headache is associated with significant co-morbidity, including substance use disorders and suicidal ideation, and treatment patterns indicating low use of recognized cluster headache treatments.
- Ketamine Infusion Combined With Magnesium as a Therapy for Intractable Chronic Cluster Headache: Report of Two Cases September 1, 2017Chronic cluster headache (CH) is a rare, highly disabling primary headache condition. As NMDA receptors are possibly overactive in CH, NMDA receptor antagonists, such as ketamine, could be of interest in patients with intractable CH.
- Cerebral hemodynamics in the different phases of migraine and cluster headache August 31, 2017Headache is one of the most common ailments; migraine is one of the most prevalent and disabling neurological disorders and cluster headache presents as one of the most excruciating pain disorders. Both are complex disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of headache. A key feature is that various triggers can set off an attack providing the ...
- Prescribing Oxygen for Cluster Headache: A Guide for the Provider August 30, 2017Oxygen is the standard of care for acute treatment of cluster headache. CMS, the US Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, has made the indefensible decision to not cover oxygen for cluster headache for patients with Medicaid and Medicare insurance, despite the evidence and professional guidelines. Commercial insurance generally covers oxygen for cluster headache.