The Brain Prize Online Seminar Series: David Dodick's Brain Prize seminar
The Brain Prize Online Seminar Series: David Dodick's seminar - Post-traumatic headache
In 2021 The Brain Prize, the world’s largest award for neuroscience, was awarded to Jes Olesen, Lars Edvinsson, Peter Goadsby, and Michael Moskowitz for their work on the causes and treatment of migraine.
The Brain Prize seminar series on migraine and headache consists of 12 seminars from international leaders in the field including the 2021 Brain Prize winners.
The series will begin in April 2021 and end in March 2022 and covers topics including mechanistic studies in patients and animal models, genetics of migraine, cluster- and post-traumatic headache, and treatment of migraine and headache disorders.
Post-traumatic headache
Concussion (mild traumatic brain injury) affects approximately 50 million people annually.
Headache is the most common symptom after concussion and persists in up to 50% of those affected for at least one-year.
The biological underpinnings of and the efficacy and tolerability of treatments for post-traumatic headache has historically received little attention. While treatment in clinical practice is mostly directly at the underlying phenotype of the headache, persistent post-traumatic headache is considered to be less responsive to treatments used to treat migraine or tension-type headache.
Over the past several years, significant pre-clinical research has begun to elucidate the mechanism(s) involved in the development of post-traumatic headache, and a concerted effort to evaluate the efficacy of selected treatments for persistent post-traumatic headache has begun. This presentation will review the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and emerging data on the prevention and treatment of post-traumatic headache.
The Brain Prize Online Seminar Series Programme:
Note that all the seminars start at 4 PM CET.
Jes Olesen, Denmark| 29 April 2021
Lars Edvinsson, Sweden | 27 May 2021
Peter Goadsby, UK/USA |24 June 2021
Michael Moskowitz, USA | 29 July 2021
Messoud Ashina, Denmark | 25 August 2021
Amy Gelfand, USA | 30 September 2021
Daniela Pietrobon, Italy | 28 October 2021
Nouchine Hadjikhani, USA | 18 November 2021
Amynha Pradhan, USA | 9 December 2021
Arn van den Maagdenberg, Netherlands | 27 January 2022
David Dodick, USA | 24 February 2022
Philip Holland, UK | 24 March 2022