Persistent headache and chronic daily headache after COVID-19: a prospective cohort study.

Background: Little is known about the frequency and impact of the persistent headache and about the incidence of chronic daily headache (CDH) after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The aim of this prospective cohort study was to assess the incidence, risk factors, characteristics, and impact of CDH in patients with COVID-19.

Methods: In the first stage, 288 patients were interviewed by telephone after the acute phase of COVID-19.

Headache Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019.

Headache affects around half of patients in the acute phase of COVID-19 and generally occurs at the beginning of the symptomatic phase, has an insidious onset, and is bilateral, and of moderate to severe intensity. COVID-19 may also present complications that cause acute and persistent headaches, such as cerebrovascular diseases, rhinosinusitis, meningitis, and intracranial hypertension. In 10% to 20% of patients with COVID-19, headache may persist beyond the acute phase.

The history and rationale of the development of new drugs for migraine treatment.

Migraine is one of the most prevalent and disabling diseases in the world. Migraine attack treatments and prophylactic treatments of this disease are essential to lessen its individual, social, and economic impact. This is a narrative review of the main drugs used for treating migraine, as well as the experimental models and the theoretical frameworks that led to their development.

Brazilian headache registry: methods and preliminary data of the pilot study.

Background: Evaluation and treatment of primary and secondary headaches is a global public health challenge. Recognizing the epidemiological impact of headaches, a group of researchers linked to the Brazilian Headache Society proposed the Brazilian Headache Registry and drew up its initial protocol.

Objective: Here we describe the methods and preliminary data obtained from the pilot study.

Acute headache attributed to ischemic stroke: assessment of its characteristics and associated factors.

Background: It is estimated that headache attributed to ischemic stroke occurs in 7.4% to 34% of the cases. Despite its frequency, this headache has been little studied in terms of its risk factors and characteristics.

Headache and systemic lupus erythematosus: A narrative review.

Objective: To review the epidemiology, the differential diagnosis, and the clinical and laboratory factors associated with the care management of headaches in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

Background: SLE is a chronic autoimmune disease and in 12%-95% of patients, the nervous system is involved. Headache is a frequently reported, although nonspecific, symptom that may potentially represent serious underlying diagnoses.

Assessing the impact of sleep restriction on the attention and executive functions of medical students: a prospective cohort study.

Objective: To compare the performance of medical students regarding attention and executive functions during a period of sleep restriction (insufficient sleep; period of classes) and a period of free sleep (sufficient sleep; vacation period).

Background: Sleep deprivation is associated with poor academic outcomes. Few studies have assessed the cognitive changes associated with sleep deprivation due to insufficient sleep syndrome in students and how they occur in real-life situations.

Moonlighting and physician residents' compensation: is it all about money? A cross-sectional Brazilian study.

Background: Moonlighting is a largely discussed, however under-explored, subject among physician residents.

Objectives: To analyze the frequency of moonlighting and its related factors.

Design And Setting: This cross-sectional study enrolled medical residents from all geographical regions of Brazil.

Consensus of the Brazilian Headache Society (SBCe) for prophylactic treatment of episodic migraine: part II.

Background: Migraine affects 1 billion people worldwide and > 30 million Brazilians; besides, it is an underdiagnosed and undertreated disorder.

Objective: The need to disseminate knowledge about the prophylactic treatment of migraine is known, so the Brazilian Headache Society (SBCe, in the Portuguese acronym) appointed a committee of authors with the objective of establishing a consensus with recommendations on the prophylactic treatment of episodic migraine based on articles from the world literature as well as from personal experience.

Methods: Meetings were held entirely online, with the participation of 12 groups that reviewed and wrote about the pharmacological categories of drugs and, at the end, met to read and finish the document.

Consensus of the Brazilian Headache Society (SBCe) for the Prophylactic Treatment of Episodic Migraine: part I.

The Brazilian Headache Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Cefaleia, SBCe, in Portuguese) nominated a Committee of Authors with the aim of establishing a consensus with recommendations regarding prophylactic treatment for episodic migraine based on articles published in the worldwide literature, as well as personal experience. Migraine affects 1 billion people around the world and more than 30 million Brazilians. In addition, it is an underdiagnosed and undertreated disorder.

Characteristics of residency programs and residents' learning experience in Brazil: a multispecialty, nation-wide study.

Factors associated with the optimal physician resident learning are yet to be fully understood. We aimed to correlate the characteristics of residency programs with the learning perception of residents. This was a cross-sectional study using an online structured questionnaire published on social networks, enrolling physician residents from almost all specialties in Brazil.

Headache associated with COVID-19: Epidemiology, characteristics, pathophysiology, and management.

Objective: To review data regarding the epidemiology, pathophysiology, characteristics, and management of COVID-19-associated headache. The persistence of headache after the acute phase of COVID-19 was also reviewed.

Background: Headache is a frequent symptom of COVID-19, and understanding its management is important for health-care professionals involved in treating the disease.

Individual and residency program factors related to depression, anxiety and burnout in physician residents - a Brazilian survey.

Background: Psychological distress is common among medical trainees. This study aimed to assess the frequency of depression, anxiety and burnout among physician residents and their association with both individual and residency program-related factors.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study applying an online survey in a national-wide sample of medical residents from Brazil.

Pregnancy and neurologic complications of COVID-19: A scoping review.

While neurologic complications are frequently reported among patients with COVID-19 in the general population, they are unknown in pregnant women. This paper summarizes the case reports of pregnant women with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection plus a specified neurologic diagnosis. Until November 2021, 18 case reports were found.

Dialysis headache: characteristics, impact and cerebrovascular evaluation.

Background: Headache is one of the most frequent symptoms that occur during hemodialysis sessions. Despite the high prevalence of dialysis headache, it has been little studied.

Objective: To evaluate the characteristics, impact and factors associated with dialysis headache.

Premonitory and Accompanying Symptoms in Childhood Migraine.

Purpose Of Review: To review the literature on the clinical characteristics of the symptoms other than headache that occurs during a migraine attack in childhood and adolescence.

Recent Findings: Premonitory symptoms (42-67%) and postdrome phase (82%) are frequent. The most frequent auras were visual.

Neurological manifestations as prognostic factors in COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: Neurological manifestations are frequent during COVID-19 but have been poorly studied as prognostic markers of COVID-19.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess whether neurological manifestations are associated with a poor prognosis of COVID-19, and which patient and COVID-19 characteristics were associated with encephalopathy.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study and included patients admitted with COVID-19 in four hospitals from Recife, Brazil.

Cerebral and spinal cord changes observed through magnetic resonance imaging in patients with HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis: a systematic review.

To verify brain and spinal changes using magnetic resonance imaging in patients with HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis. This was a systematic review. The descriptors used were tropical spastic paraparesis and magnetic resonance image.

Headache, anosmia, ageusia and other neurological symptoms in COVID-19: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Neurological symptoms are frequent among patients with COVID-19. Little is known regarding the repercussions of neurological symptoms for patients and how these symptoms are related to one another.

Objectives: To determine whether there is an association between the neurological symptoms in patients with COVID-19, and to characterize the headache.

The prevalence and severity of insomnia in university students and their associations with migraine, tension-type headache, anxiety and depression disorders: a cross-sectional study.

Background: There is possibly an association between migraine, tension-type headache, anxiety, depression and insomnia. These conditions are prevalent among university students. Our primary objective was to verify whether students with primary headaches (migraine and tension-type headache) have a higher prevalence of insomnia.

Neck and back muscle chains hypomobility in women with migraine.

Objective: To compare the mobility of neck and back flexor and extensor muscle chains in women with migraine, chronic migraine and headache-free.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. The muscle chain test was performed based on the theoretical assumptions of the Busquet method, in women with migraine (MG, n = 24), chronic migraine (CMG, n = 36) and headache-free (CG, n = 27).

Multiple demyelinating sensory and motor mononeuropathy associated with COVID-19: a case report.

The involvement of the nervous system may occur in 36.4% of patients with COVID-19. Cases have been described of cerebrovascular diseases, encephalitis, encephalopathies, and changes in smell and taste.

FRAMES protocol versus simple advice for medication-overuse headache: a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial.

It is central to the management of patients with Medication-overuse headache that they reverse their behavior regarding the frequent use of pain medication. The objective of this study was to compare two counseling techniques for treating patients with Medication-overuse headache (MOH). This was a randomized, blind, controlled clinical trial that compared a structured (FRAMES) and unstructured counseling, for the treatment of MOH.