Migraine Headache: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Current Treatment
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Neurology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2025 | Viewed by 829
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Rīga Stradiņš University, LV-1007 Riga, Latvia
Interests: headaches; pain; neuropathic pain; musculoskeletal disorders
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Headaches are one of the most common health complaints and are listed among the WHO’s major causes of disability with a global prevalence of 47% (symptoms occurring at least once in the past year). In particular, migraines are especially debilitating in women and young people aged between 15–49 years. They have a great social and economic impact on family life, partnership, educational and employment choices, and work productivity.
There are challenges in headache care on all levels. Migraine and other primary headaches are under-recognized as a problem by patients and physicians in many cases. Clinicians often lack interest and become frustrated seeing headache patients. Diagnosis failure leads to patients not receiving an accurate diagnosis, resulting in under-diagnosed primary headaches and over-diagnosed secondary headaches (such as cervicogenic headaches, or attributed to arterial hypertension, refractive error, or sinusitis, etc.). Lack of timely precise headache disorder diagnosis leads to delayed and inadequate treatment or under-treated migraines and other headache disorders, which require acute and preventive medications and non-pharmacological approaches. This, in turn, creates risks of chronic migraines, other primary headaches, and medication overuse headaches.
In this Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine, we are offering a platform to highlight the broad diversity of research performed across this field. This Special Issue will focus on new insights, current challenges and controversies, recent advances, and future perspectives in the field of migraine and other headache disorders. We anticipate that the research presented will promote fruitful discussions in the maternal-fetal medical community that will translate into the adoption of best practice applications in clinical, public health, and policy settings.
Prof. Dr. Ināra Logina
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- migraine
- headache disorders
- burden of headache disorders
- acute and preventive treatment of migraine
- neuropathic pain
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