Aims: Alcohol-related hangover symptoms: nausea, headache, stress and anxiety cause globally considerable amount of health problems and economic losses. Many of these harmful effects are produced by alcohol and its metabolite,
Sixteen patients with a headache resembling the so-called "tension headache" and a clear response to doxepin (demonstrated in a previous work) were given femoxetine, 400 mg p.d., and placebo in a cross-over, double-blind fashion. Only single blindness was kept in the last third of the study. Placebo
Tension-type headache is one of the most common and most significant primary headaches. Tension-type headache is a very heterogeneous disorder. It can be divided into episodic and chronic tension-type headache. The pain is a dull, pressing, tightening, typically band-like sensation. The pain is of
Tension-type headache typically causes pain that radiates in a band-like fashion bilaterally from the forehead to the occiput. Pain often radiates to the neck muscles and is described as tightness, pressure, or dull ache. Migraine-type features (unilateral, throbbing pain, nausea, photophobia) are
Drugs influencing monoaminergic pathways are of potential use in the treatment of pain. A serotonin re-uptake inhibitor, paroxetine (20-30 mg daily), and a dopamine antagonist, sulpiride (200-400 mg daily) were compared in a randomized, double-blind, response-conditional cross-over pilot study in 50
BACKGROUND
Migraine and tension type headache (TTH) are two most common types of primary headaches. Though the International Classification of Headache Disorders-2 (ICHD-2) describes the diagnostic criteria, even then in clinical practice, patients may not respect these boundaries resulting in the
The effect of a new analgesic compound (propoxyphene, acetaminophen, caffeine, hydroxyzine) was investigated in a single-blind study comparing it with plain acetaminophen administered to forty patients with tension headache. For the study, patients were assigned to one of two groups of twenty each.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to explore the efficacy of buspirone (BSR), in comparison with amitriptyline (AML) in the prophylactic treatment of chronic tension-type headache (CTH), in an open and randomized clinical trial.
METHODS
Twenty-six CTH patients (10 men and 16 women) were treated
BACKGROUND
Tension headache and migraine are opposite ends of a benign recurrent headache spectrum.
OBJECTIVE
To provide an approach to the diagnosis of benign recurrent headache.
CONCLUSIONS
Tension headache is characterised by symmetry, non-disabling severity and the absence of vascular features
At two headache centers, one for children and adolescents and the other for adults, we investigated patients aged 5-80 years with episodic or chronic tension-type headache to evaluate the relation between age and headache characteristics as well as analgesics intake. We found an increasing headache
Psychological stress triggers headaches, but how this happens is unclear. To explore this, 38 migraine sufferers, 28 with tension-type headache (T-TH) and 20 controls rated nausea, negative affect, task-expectancies and headache at 5-min intervals during an aversive 20-min mental arithmetic task
In this study, the causes, predisposing factors and clinical features of chronic daily headache in children and adolescents were studied within the population of patients attending a specialist headache. The International Headache Society's (IHS) criteria for the diagnosis of chronic tension type
OBJECTIVE
To describe patterns of psychosocial adjustment and psychological attributes in preadolescent children as a function of headache status in univariate and adjusted analyses.
METHODS
Target sample of children (n = 8599) was representative of Brazil by demographics. Parents were interviewed
The antimigraine efficacy of dihydroergotamine methanesulphonate in the pharmaceutical form of planned release capsules has been evaluated. Forty-nine subjects were treated, 39 suffering from common migraine 10 from tension vascular headache, for a period of 90 days, with an oral dose of 15 mg twice
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