That’s why if you experience intractable headaches, it’s crucial to meet with a healthcare professional—our primary care doctor, a neurologist, or a headache specialist. She’ll will likely begin by ...

March 2, 2012 — Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH; also called pseudotumor cerebri [PTC] or benign intracranial hypertension) is surprisingly common in patients with systemic lupus ...

I just want to clean and fill the bird bath, fill the feeders, and do a little weeding today, but this is day 22 of an intractable migraine. I confess I find myself humbled to recall what it feels ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found that occipital nerve stimulation at either 100% or 30% intensity safely reduced the attack ...

For patients and their clinicians, treatment of chronic headaches can be frustrating. In two studies, investigators look at a new antidepressant, mirtazapine (Remeron), and an old remedy of last ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . I want to reflect on a recent patient I admitted: a woman in her 40s who presented with an intractable headache.

What I didn’t realize was that my body and emotions were asking me to slow down, to take a deep look within. But I wasn’t listening — until just over 2 years ago when my body screamed. “Isn’t the ...

The initial member of a team developing the first headache clinic in the West with an inpatient component for diagnosis and treatment has arrived at UCSF. Abraham J. Nagy, MD, has begun seeing ...