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Guidelines for primary headaches of the Italian Society for the Study of Headaches (SISC). Pharmacological treatment.
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The comorbidity of migraine and hypertension. A study in a tertiary care headache centre
No full textSleep quality, allodynia symptoms and quality of life in primary headache sufferers
No full textSleep and headache are known to be strongly related but the nature of their relation is not completely known. Sleep disorders occurs more frequently in chronic than in episodic headache sufferers and worsen their quality of life. Allodynia is a symptom of central sensitization involved in the mechanism of chronic headache. This study was conducted to search for a possible relation among sleep quality, allodynia symptoms and quality of life in headache sufferers
Patient and headache: from care to cure. The future of theraphy from the itineraries of the past.
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Tertiary treatment for psychiatric comorbidity in headache patients
No full textThe presence of significant and confounding psychiatric comorbidity is greater in patients attending headache clinics than in headache patients from the general population. The frequent comorbidity of headache with generalized anxiety disorder can take advantage of the administration of benzodiazepines. With regard to depression-related headache, it's wellknown that the antidepressive drugs can improve migraine as well as tension-type headache. Antiepileptic drugs give one more good opportunity. The recognition of a psychiatric comorbidity is mandatory for an accurate management of the patient because prevents the clinicians from using any drug that might be dangerous for a mysdiagnosed psychiatric disturbance and often permits to administer medications that can efficaciously control both headache and psychiatric disorders
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