The Brain Prize Online Seminar Series: Amy Gelfand's Brain Prize seminar

 

 

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.

 

Dr. Amy Gelfand

A board-certified child neurologist and Director of Pediatric Headache at UCSF. She specializes in diagnosing and treating children who suffer from a variety of headache disorders, as well as children with childhood periodic syndromes such as abdominal migraine that may be precursors to migraine headache later in life. Her research focuses on the epidemiology and treatment of pediatric migraine and childhood periodic syndromes.
(Src: UCSF)
 

Pediatric Migraine - Who, What, When, Where

This talk will address important aspects of pediatric migraine research:

1.  Who is affected by pediatric migraine?
2.  What does pediatric migraine look like, and what does a clinician need to do to reach a migraine diagnosis in a child?
3.  When does pediatric migraine begin, and how might it present clinically before it presents as headache (e.g., infant colic, benign paroxysmal torticollis, cyclic vomiting syndrome, etc.)
4.  Where does responsibility for decreasing pediatric migraine frequency rest? What is society's role in preventing migraines in young people?

 

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

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