
Update on Emerging Treatments for Migraine
- 1st Edition, Volume 255 - September 3, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Shuu-Jiun Wang, Chi Ieong Lau
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 1 0 8 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 1 0 9 - 0
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Update in migraine preventive treatment
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Preventive medications for migraine
- 3: Preventive medications for chronic migraine
- 4: Calcitonin gene-related peptide monoclonal antibodies
- 5: Special considerations
- 6: Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Therapeutic implications of cortical spreading depression models in migraine
- Abstract
- 1: Migraine
- 2: Cortical spreading depression
- 3: Basics on in vivo experimental models of CSD
- 4: Consequences of CSD
- 5: Migraine modulators affect CSD susceptibility
- 6: CSD inhibition reflecting clinical responsiveness
- 7: CSD inhibitors that inhibit migraine aura but not headache
- 8: Novel targets for migraine therapeutics
- 9: Future directions and potentials for CSD models
- 10: Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Electrophysiological basis for antiepileptic drugs in migraine prevention
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Basic concepts of electrophysiological studies in migraine
- 3: The visual cortex
- 4: The somatosensory cortex
- 5: The motor cortex
- 6: Effects of antiepileptic drugs in migraine prevention and the associated electrophysiological studies
- 7: Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 4: Targeting the 5-HT1B/1D and 5-HT1F receptors for acute migraine treatment
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Migraine pathophysiology
- 3: General principles of acute treatments
- 4: Second-generation 5-HT1B/1D agonists
- 5: Ditans – 5-HT1F receptor agonists
- 6: Conclusions
- Chapter 5: A new era for migraine: The role of calcitonin gene-related peptide in the trigeminovascular system
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Theories of migraine pathophysiology
- 3: The trigeminovascular system and migraine
- 4: CGRP and CGRP receptors
- 5: The role of CGRP in migraine and other headaches
- 6: CGRP and the trigeminovascular system
- 7: CGRP & its receptors as therapeutic targets for migraine
- 8: Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 6: Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-targeted therapies as preventive and acute treatments for migraine—The monoclonal antibodies and gepants
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: CGRP monoclonal antibodies
- 3: Gepants
- 4: Conclusion
- Conflict of interest
- Chapter 7: OnabotulinumtoxinA injection in the treatment of chronic migraine
- Abstract
- 1: Early history of botulinum toxin
- 2: Clinical application of botulinum toxin
- 3: Botulinum toxin A injection for headache disorders before PREEMPT
- 4: Double-blind randomized controlled trials for chronic migraine (Table 1)
- 5: Open-label phase of PREEMPT trials and real-world studies (Table 2)
- 6: Tolerability and safety (Table 3)
- 7: OnabotulinumtoxinA and other preventive medications
- 8: Practical issues
- 9: Guidelines (Table 5)
- 10: Concluding remarks
- Chapter 8: The visual system as target of non-invasive brain stimulation for migraine treatment: Current insights and future challenges
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction—The role of the visual system in migraine
- 2: Altered visual processing in migraine
- 3: Transcranial magnetic stimulation and the visual cortex
- 4: Targeting the visual cortex with TMS for migraine therapy
- 5: Transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) and the visual cortex
- 6: Rationale for using tES in migraine therapy
- 7: Future directions
- 8: Conclusion
- Chapter 9: Update on noninvasive neuromodulation for migraine treatment—Vagus nerve stimulation
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: nVNS for acute migraine treatment
- 3: nVNS for migraine prevention
- 4: Mode of action and physiological effects
- 5: Conclusion
- Conflicts of interest
- Chapter 10: Managing migraine in pregnancy and breastfeeding
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Overview of migraine pathophysiology and the role of estrogen
- 3: Migraine during pregnancy
- 4: Impact of migraine on pregnancy
- 5: Diagnosis of migraine with and without aura during pregnancy
- 6: Diagnosis and evaluation of secondary headache during pregnancy
- 7: Neuroimaging
- 8: Treatment considerations
- 9: Acute migraine treatment in pregnancy
- 10: Preventive treatment
- 11: Emerging therapies
- 12: Migraine and lactation
- 13: Acute treatment during lactation
- 14: Preventive treatment during lactation
- 15: Conclusion
- Chapter 11: Insights into pathophysiology and treatment of visual snow syndrome: A systematic review
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methods
- 3: Results
- 4: Discussion
- 5: Conclusion
- Chapter 12: Targeting migraine treatment with neuroimaging—Pharmacological neuroimaging in headaches
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction: Neuroimaging in headache disorders
- 2: Pharmacological neuroimaging
- 3: Pharmacological imaging studies in headache disorders
- 4: Acute medication
- 5: Preventive medication
- 6: Emerging new treatment options
- 7: Can pharmacological neuroimaging studies be used to predict treatment response?
- 8: Limitations and challenges
- 9: Conclusion
- Chapter 13: Therapeutic role of melatonin in migraine prophylaxis: Is there a link between sleep and migraine?
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Migraine and sleep disorders
- 3: Pathophysiology of comorbidity between migraine and sleep disorders
- 4: Melatonin and melatonin receptors and relevant pharmaceuticals
- 5: Safety and adverse effects of melatonin
- 6: Melatonin, migraine and sleep disorders
- 7: Clinical trials of melatonin in treatment of migraine and sleep disorders
- 8: Conclusions and future directions
- Chapter 14: Clinical and biobehavioral perspectives: Is medication overuse headache a behavior of dependence?
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Nomenclatural perspective
- 3: Epidemiological and comorbid perspective
- 4: Personality and psychological perspective
- 5: Cognitive and decision-making perspective
- 6: Neuroimaging perspective
- 7: Genetic perspective
- 8: Clinical implications
- 9: Conclusion
- Conflict of interest
- Funding
- Chapter 15: The genetics of migraine and the path to precision medicine
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Emerging concepts in migraine pathogenesis
- 3: The role of genetics in migraine susceptibility
- 4: Familial hemiplegic migraine
- 5: Searching for Mendelian genes causing typical migraine
- 6: The role TRESK in migraine mechanisms
- 7: Migraine genome-wide association studies
- 8: Migraine polygenic risk
- 9: Shared genetic mechanisms with migraine and its comorbidities
- 10: From genome to therapies
- 11: Approaches to personalizing migraine treatments
- 12: Conclusion
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 255
- Published: September 3, 2020
- No. of pages (Hardback): 442
- No. of pages (eBook): 442
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128211083
- eBook ISBN: 9780128211090
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Shuu-Jiun Wang
Professor Shuu-Jiun Wang works in the Tapei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan.
Affiliations and expertise
Tapei Veterans General Hospital, TaiwanCL
Chi Ieong Lau
Dr. Chi-Ieong Lau works at Shin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital in Taiwan.
Affiliations and expertise
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