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Migraine Awareness Week 6th – 12th September 2020

 A migraine is usually a moderate or severe headache felt as a throbbing pain on 1 side of the head.

Many people also have symptoms such as feeling sick, being sick and increased sensitivity to light or sound.

Migraine is a common health condition, affecting around 1 in every 5 women and around 1 in every 15 men. They usually begin in early adulthood.

The Migraine Trust’s 2020 campaign “#GiveUpForMigraine” is linked to the belief that migraines are triggered by certain things e.g. alcohol or hormones. Everyone’s experience is different, and some things may be due to the migraine itself rather than a separate trigger. However, many people who suffer from migraines avoid certain things to try and help their migraine. Therefore, the campaign asks friends and family members of migraine sufferers to give up something they like doing for a month and donate the money they would normally spend instead.

For more information surrounding migraines, please visit The Migraine Trust and NHS Choices website:

https://www.migrainetrust.org/

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/migraine/

BOOKS:

  • Headache and migraine biology and management / editors: Seymour Diamond, Roger Cady, Merle L. Diamond, Mark W.  Green, Vincent T. Martin, 2015 [Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/AP, Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier]
  • Gender and migraine / Antoinette Maassen van den Brink, 2019 [New York, NY : Springer Berlin Heidelberg]

JOURNALS:

  • Journal of headache and pain, London, United Kingdom : BioMed Central. [Available as a Keele and NHS ejournal 2000 onwards].
  • Current Pain and Headache Reports, New York: Springer Nature B.V. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards, & NHS e-journal 1997 onwards with 1 year embargo].
  • Cephalalgia, London, England: SAGE Publications. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1996 onwards, & NHS e-journal 1996 to 2009].
  • Cephalalgia Reports, London: Sage Publications. [Available as a Keele and NHS ejournal 2018 onwards].
  • The Lancet: Neurology, England: Elsevier BV. [Also Available as a Keele and NHS ejournal 2002 onwards].
  • Neuroscience, United States: Elsevier BV. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards, & NHS e-journal 2007 onwards].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

  • Rutberg, Stina; Öhrling, Kerstin, “Migraine – more than a headache: women’s experiences of living with migraine”, Disability and Rehabilitation, 2011, Vol.34 (4), p.329-336. [Available via Keele ejournals]
  • Deena Kuruvilla, Joseph I Mann, Jean Schoenen and Sophie Penning, “Acute treatment of migraine with external trigeminal nerve stimulation: A pilot trial”, Cephalalgia Reports, 2019 Vol 2, p 1–6. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Messoud Ashina Prof, Jakob Møller Hansen MD, Thien Phu Do MD, Agustin Melo-Carrillo MD, Rami Burstein Prof and Michael A Moskowitz Prof, “Migraine and the trigeminovascular system—40 years and counting”, The Lancet: Neurology, 2019 Vol 18 (8) p.795-804. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Lipton, Richard B ; Manack Adams, Aubrey ; Buse, Dawn C ; Fanning, Kristina M ; Reed, Michael L, “A Comparison of the Chronic Migraine Epidemiology and Outcomes (CaMEO) Study and American Migraine Prevalence and Prevention (AMPP) Study: Demographics and Headache-Related Disability”, Headache, 2016, Vol.56 (8), p.1280-1289. [Available via Keele ejournals]
  • Goadsby, P.J ; Charbit, A.R ; Andreou, A.P ; Akerman, S ; Holland, P.R, “Neurobiology of migraine”, Neuroscience, 2009, Vol.161 (2), p.327-341. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Friedman, Benjamin W, “Managing Migraine”, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2017, Vol.69 (2), p.202-207. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
  • Burch, Rebecca, “Migraine and Tension-Type Headache: Diagnosis and Treatment”, Medical Clinics of North America, 2019 Vol 103 (2) pp.215 – 233. [Available via NHS ejournals]
  • Martelletti P, Schwedt TJ, Lanteri-Minet M, et al., “My Migraine Voice survey: a global study of disease burden among individuals with migraine for whom preventive treatments have failed.”, Journal of Headache Pain, 2018 Vol 19 (1), pp.115. Doi:10.1186/s10194-018-0946-z [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals, open access article]
  • Probyn K, Bowers H, Mistry D, et al., “Non-pharmacological self-management for people living with migraine or tension-type headache: a systematic review including analysis of intervention components.” BMJ Open, 2017 Vol 7 (8): e016670. Doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016670. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals, open access article]

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