[The quality of life of the cluster headache patients during the active phase of the headache].

Background And Purpose: Cluster headache (CH), which affects 0.1% of the population, is one of the most painful human conditions: despite adequate treatment, the frequent and severe headaches cause a significant burden to the patients. According to a small number of previous studies, CH has a serious negative effect on the sufferers' quality of life (QOL).

Increased activation of the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex to citalopram challenge in migraine: an fMRI study.

Background: The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is a key structure of the pain processing network. Several structural and functional alterations of this brain area have been found in migraine. In addition, altered serotonergic neurotransmission has been repeatedly implicated in the pathophysiology of migraine, although the exact mechanism is not known.

The validation of the Hungarian version of the ID-migraine questionnaire.

Background: Despite its high prevalence, migraine remains underdiagnosed and undertreated. ID-Migraine is a short, self-administrated questionnaire, originally developed in English by Lipton et al. and later validated in several languages.

The psychometric properties of the Comprehensive Headache-related Quality of life Questionnaire (CHQQ) translated to Serbian.

Background: The Comprehensive Headache-related Quality of life Questionnaire (CHQQ), is a recently developed and validated instrument, intended for measuring quality of life of patients with all headache types. Currently no validated headache-specific quality of life questionnaires are available in Serbian. The aim of this study was to translate the CHQQ from Hungarian to Serbian, to make necessary cultural adaptations and to test its psychometric properties in a sample of outpatients with headache.

[Tricyclic antidepressant therapy in headache].

The two most important representatives of the primary headaches are migraine and tension-type headache. More than 10% of the population suffer from migraine and even a greater part, approximately 30-40% from tension-type headache. These two headache types have a great effect both on the individual and on the society.

[Current pharmacotherapy in migraine].

The exact pathomechanism of migraine is still unknown, currently there are no biomarkers for migraine diagnosis, and current animal models reflect only one aspect of migraine, therefore future migraine studies are necessary. The current treatment of migraine (both acute and preventive) is suboptimal. There are no specific preventive drugs for migraine, and current preventatives may become inefficient during long-term use.

[Examining the diagnostic accuracy of a new migraine screener].

Background: Migraine affects more than 10% of the Hungarian population, causes significant disability and severely affects patients' generic and condition-specific quality of life. Despite these facts, a significant proportion of patients is not diagnosed and not treated adequately. Headache centres can provide care for only a fraction of all patients.

The comprehensive headache-related quality of life questionnaire shows significant improvement after withdrawal treatment in medication overuse headache: a pilot study.

Background And Purpose: Medication overuse headache (MOH) is a common form of disabling headache presenting in as much as 30% of the patients seen in headache subspecialty practice. Quality of life (QOL) is frequently used as a secondary endpoint in headache trials. In MOH, previous trials of QOL focused mostly on generic QOL.

The validation of a new comprehensive headache-specific quality of life questionnaire.

Background: Measuring quality of life (QOL) is an important means of assessing the impact of headache. The currently used QOL questionnaires are usually geared toward migraine and focus on a limited number of factors, thus they are not necessarily informative in other headache types. We report the psychometric properties of a new questionnaire, the Comprehensive Headache-related Quality of life Questionnaire (CHQQ) that may be more sensitive to the burden of headache.