Cluster Headache: Improving Therapy for the Worst Pain Experienced by Humans
Medicine seminar by Prof Peter Goadsby, King's College London, UK & UCLA, USA
Hosted by The Brain Prize Series
Friday 18:00–19:10 Copenhagen (GMT+2)
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Abstract
Cluster headache is a brain disorder dominated clinically by dreadful episodes of excruciating pain with a circadian pattern and most often focused in bouts with circannual periodicity. As we have understood its neurobiology new therapies, including those directed at calcitonin gene-related peptide, are helpful improve the lives of sufferers.
Topics
CGRPcalcitonin gene-related peptidecircadian patterncircannual periodicitycluster headacheexcruciating painheadache disordersneurobiology