Insights into Migraine Treatments
Towards Personalized Medicine
- 1st Edition - December 9, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Massimo Filippi, Roberta Messina
- Language: English
Insights into Migraine Treatments offers a comprehensive overview to guide the selection of the most appropriate therapy for each patient within the landscape of migraine care… Read more
Insights into Migraine Treatments offers a comprehensive overview to guide the selection of the most appropriate therapy for each patient within the landscape of migraine care. It explores the full spectrum of available treatments and their mechanisms of action, while addressing the challenges of individualized therapeutic decision-making. By presenting essential data on efficacy, safety, and biomarkers of treatment response, this book serves as a practical resource for tailoring interventions to patient-specific needs. With its solution-oriented approach, it is a valuable reference for clinicians and researchers striving to advance migraine management.
Covering topics from the clinical characteristics of migraine to acute therapies, pharmacological and nonpharmacological preventive strategies, and clinical, neuroimaging, and neurophysiological biomarkers, this book is designed to meet the complex and evolving needs of migraine patients.
Covering topics from the clinical characteristics of migraine to acute therapies, pharmacological and nonpharmacological preventive strategies, and clinical, neuroimaging, and neurophysiological biomarkers, this book is designed to meet the complex and evolving needs of migraine patients.
- Provides up-to-date evidence on the efficacy and safety of acute and preventive migraine treatments
- Enhances understanding of mechanisms of action and therapeutic targets across treatment options
- Discusses emerging biomarkers that may predict individual treatment response, improving patient outcomes
The primary audience of this book will be researchers and clinicians with a specific interest in the headache field, Neurologists and general practitioners who see headache patients during their daily practice could also be interested in the topic of the book.
1. Clinical manifestations of migraine
Christopher L. Robinson, Haidar M. Al-Khazali, Faisal Mohammad Amin and Sait Ashina
2. Why, when, and how to treat migraine patients?
Bruno Colombo and Ilaria Cetta
3. Acute treatments: nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, ergot alkaloids, triptans, and ditans
Adrian Scutelnic, Franz Riederer and Christoph J. Schankin
4. Acute treatments: neuromodulation and peripheral nerve blocks
Gabriele Sebastianelli, Alessandro Viganò and Francesca Puledda
5. Oral preventive treatments: antidepressants, antihypertensives, anticonvulsants, betablockers, and calcium channel blockers
Michelle Sojung Youn and Mi Ji Lee
6. Preventive treatments: onabotulinumtoxinA and peripheral nerve blocks
Raffaele Ornello, Federico De Santis and Simona Sacco
7. Nonpharmacological approaches in migraine prevention: neuromodulation, nutraceuticals, and behavioral approaches
Nicolas Vandenbussche and David Moreno-Ajona
8. Why target the calcitonin gene-related peptide pathway: Receptors, intracellular pathways, and its role in migraine pathophysiology
Robyn-Jenia Wilcha and Peter J. Goadsby
9. Gepants
Pablo Irimia, Christian Alejandro Espinoza Vinces and Farid Santiago Abedrabbo
10. Anti-CGRP monoclonal antibodies
Bianca Raffaelli and Uwe Reuter
11. Biomarkers of treatment response
Laura Zanandrea, Massimo Filippi and Roberta Messina
12. Migraine treatments: what have we learned from neuroimaging?
Federica Genovese, Roberta Messina and Massimo Filippi
13. Migraine treatments: what have we learned from neurophysiology?
Gianluca Coppola and Francesco Casillo
14. Treatments to use in special circumstances: children, pregnancy, elderly
Nazia Karsan and Prab Prabhakar
15. Unmet needs and future perspectives
Andreas R. Gantenbein
Christopher L. Robinson, Haidar M. Al-Khazali, Faisal Mohammad Amin and Sait Ashina
2. Why, when, and how to treat migraine patients?
Bruno Colombo and Ilaria Cetta
3. Acute treatments: nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, ergot alkaloids, triptans, and ditans
Adrian Scutelnic, Franz Riederer and Christoph J. Schankin
4. Acute treatments: neuromodulation and peripheral nerve blocks
Gabriele Sebastianelli, Alessandro Viganò and Francesca Puledda
5. Oral preventive treatments: antidepressants, antihypertensives, anticonvulsants, betablockers, and calcium channel blockers
Michelle Sojung Youn and Mi Ji Lee
6. Preventive treatments: onabotulinumtoxinA and peripheral nerve blocks
Raffaele Ornello, Federico De Santis and Simona Sacco
7. Nonpharmacological approaches in migraine prevention: neuromodulation, nutraceuticals, and behavioral approaches
Nicolas Vandenbussche and David Moreno-Ajona
8. Why target the calcitonin gene-related peptide pathway: Receptors, intracellular pathways, and its role in migraine pathophysiology
Robyn-Jenia Wilcha and Peter J. Goadsby
9. Gepants
Pablo Irimia, Christian Alejandro Espinoza Vinces and Farid Santiago Abedrabbo
10. Anti-CGRP monoclonal antibodies
Bianca Raffaelli and Uwe Reuter
11. Biomarkers of treatment response
Laura Zanandrea, Massimo Filippi and Roberta Messina
12. Migraine treatments: what have we learned from neuroimaging?
Federica Genovese, Roberta Messina and Massimo Filippi
13. Migraine treatments: what have we learned from neurophysiology?
Gianluca Coppola and Francesco Casillo
14. Treatments to use in special circumstances: children, pregnancy, elderly
Nazia Karsan and Prab Prabhakar
15. Unmet needs and future perspectives
Andreas R. Gantenbein
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 9, 2025
- Language: English
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Massimo Filippi
Massimo Filippi, MD, is Full Professor of Neurology at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Director of the Residency School in Neurology, President of the Bacherlor’s Degree in Physiotherapy, Chair of the Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Units, Director of the MS Center, Director of the Neurophysiology Service, and Director of the Neuroimaging Research Unit at IRCCS Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan. His research activity has always focused on the definition of the mechanisms underlying various neurological conditions, including multiple sclerosis, neurodegenerative disorders, and migraine. As Director of the of the Neuroimaging Research Unit, he coordinated the MRI acquisition and analysis of several large-scale international MRI-monitored trials of multiple sclerosis. He is member of various national and international Scientific Societies and Boards and for some of them, he holds or has held institutional roles. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurology, Associate Editor of Human Brain Mapping, Radiology, and Neurological Sciences.
Affiliations and expertise
Neurology Unit, Neurorehabilitation Unit, Neurophysiology Service, Headache Center, and Neuroimaging Research Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, ItalyRM
Roberta Messina
Roberta Messina, MD, PhD, is a neurologist with expertise in the evaluation of headache patients, as well as in the analysis of MRI. She is a post-doctoral researcher at the Neuroimaging Research Unit and a headache specialist at the Headache Center at IRCCS Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan. Her main interests are studying biomarkers of headache patients´ responses to treatments, and the use of MRI techniques in primary headache disorders. She has applied MRI techniques to study the mechanisms underlying migraine pathophysiology, yielding new insights into brain alterations associated with migraine. She has collaborated in national and international studies assessing the efficacy, safety, and mechanisms of actions of novel treatments employed for migraine prevention. She is the Italian representative in the Juniors Committee of the International Headache Society and part of its Education Committee. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Headache and Pain.
Affiliations and expertise
Neurology Unit, Headache Center, and Neuroimaging Research Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, ItalyRead Insights into Migraine Treatments on ScienceDirect