Preventive pharmacotherapy of headache disorders /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Olesen, Jes, Silberstein, Stephen D., Tfelt-Hansen, Peer
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:Oxford medical publications.
Frontiers in headache research ; v. 12.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Methodology of prophylactic trials
  • Principles of preventive pharmacotherapy in primary headache
  • Methodology and implementation of systematic reviews
  • Adverse events, equally important as efficacy as an outcome parameter?
  • The methodology of prophylactic trials : discussion summary
  • Prophylactic drugs I
  • Key issues in the methodology of prophylactic migraine trials
  • Migraine prophylaxis : a pharmacoepidemiological study of practices used by general practitioners and neurologists in France
  • Preventive treatment of migraine headache with rofecoxib
  • Prophylactic treatment and course of the disease in headache associated with sexual activity
  • Prophylactic drugs I : discussion summary
  • Prophylactic drugs II
  • Prevention of migraine : beta-blockers and amine agonists : efficacy
  • AEDs in migraine prevention
  • Mechanism(s) of action of the antiepileptic drugs valproic acid, gabapentin, and topiramate : implications for the prophylactic management of migraine
  • Experience with topiramate in patients with refractory migraine
  • Topiramate in a selective group of therapy refractory headache patients
  • Prophylactic drugs II : discussion summary
  • Prophylactic drugs III
  • Efficacy of antidepressants in heachache prophylaxis
  • Antidepressants : mechanisms of action
  • Other prophylactic anti-migraine agents : riboflavin, feverfew, magnesium, botulinum toxin, and calcium antagonists
  • Treatment of chronic tension-type headache with mirtazapine
  • Botulinum toxin type A in the treatment of refractory headache
  • Botulinum toxin A in the prophylaxis of migraine - a double-blind , placebo-controlled, randomized study comparing frontal and cervical injection
  • Mechanisms of the antinociceptive effect of subcutaneous BOTOX® : inhibition of peripheral and central nociceptive processing
  • Survey of expenditure for analgesics in chronic tension headache and its changes following botulinum toxin type A preventive treatment
  • Prophylactic treatment of migraine with lomerizine hydrochloride
  • Prophylactic drugs III : discussion summary
  • Antagonizing peripheral sensitization in migraine
  • New possibilities for antimigraine therapy via 5-HT receptors?
  • Dihydroergotamine interaction with 5-HT₂ receptors and its relevance to migraine
  • Migraine prophlaxis with drugs influencing the angiotension system
  • Naratriptan in the preventive treatment of refractory chronic migraine
  • PROMISE study (PROphylaxis of MIgraine with SEglor®)
  • Serotonin receptors and migraine prophylaxis - the case of dihydroergotamine
  • What is the mechanism of action of ACE inhibitors in migraine prophylaxis?
  • Triptans with methysergide
  • New targets I : discussion summary
  • Nitric oxide and its signalling pathways : a rich source of potential targets for migrain therapy
  • Clacitonin gene-related peptide and migriane
  • Phosphodiesterases, cyclic nucleotides, and their role in the migraine
  • The prostoglandin-E₁-analog misoprostol in the prophylactic treatment of refractory cluster headache and trigeminal neuralgia
  • New tagets II : discussion summary