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Filter by:The purpose of this research study is to test two medicines for migraine prevention in children and adolescents.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a novel therapy for treatment of migraine, pain reduction and relief of associated symptoms during ongoing migraine attacks, and presence of a preventive effect two months post treatment. Another purpose is to investigate if and how this treatment affects manifestations of the autonomic nervous system activity.
This study will describe the reasons for triptan utilization patterns (continuation and discontinuation) in triptan-naïve participants and assess the stability of treatment utilization patterns over time according to standard medical guidelines or clinical practice standards of the investigating physician.
Migraine is one of the commonest neurological disorders, affecting up to 12% of the general population, but remains relatively under-diagnosed and under-treated. Migraine has a wide socioeconomic impact and brings a large economic burden; estimates suggest that disability due to migraine costs > €27 billion per annum across Europe. Despite its prevalence and impact, migraine pathophysiology is poorly understood. A wider understanding of the functional changes in this disorder would be beneficial to both diagnosis and treatment. Saccades are the rapid eye movements we make when moving the eyes to a new object in our visual field. Reaction time studies have been used to investigate Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease with great success. These use saccadic tasks (monitoring eye movements). Even at rest we make approximately three saccades per second, so a lot of data can quickly be gathered with non-invasive testing. We hope to understand more of the underlying mechanisms of migraine by studying reaction time in migraine patients. Our previous pilot study, with less stringent inclusion and exclusion criteria, looked at fewer patients (32 migraineurs and 32 controls), and found that migraineurs showed significantly different saccadic patterns to non-migraineurs. This study firstly seeks to corroborate the saccadometric findings of our earlier pilot study in a group of migraineurs, and secondly to explore the specificity of these findings in migraine by also studying patients with another primary headache syndrome, namely cluster headache. Migraine is known to be a dynamic disorder, with previous studies showing longitudinal changes in the migraine brain. To explore this further we hope to record longitudinally (Every day for 21 days) in a small subset of migraineurs to identify potential longitudinal changes in saccadic reaction time. Because of the portability of the equipment this could be done in the subjects own home if they preferred.
This multi-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group trial carbon dioxide in the treatment of moderate to severe migraine. At approximately 8 US sites, approximately 450 patients who meet the eligibility criteria will be randomized to active or placebo in a 1:1 ratio to ensure that 400 patients will treat at least one moderate to severe migraine with the study drug. Patients will be randomized to one of two treatment groups and be provided with either an active or placebo dispenser. All patients will administer study drug for 10 seconds to each nostril when experiencing a qualifying headache. Patients will assess their pain and other migraine-related symptoms in a patient diary. If a patient still has pain and/or any other symptoms after the initial dose then the patient may opt to take 3 more doses to treat the headache. Each patient's participation in the study may last up to 56 days or once the patient treats 4 headaches with the study drug, whichever occurs first. There will be a total of 2 scheduled clinic visits: - Visit 1 Screening/Randomization - Visit 2 End of Study (within 7 days after the patients treats his/her fourth headache or after the end of the 56-day treatment period, whichever occurs first)
Evaluation of ADX10059 to prevent migraine attacks
A study to assess the safety and efficacy of MK0974 for preventing migraines in patients with episodic migraine.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of an implantable device to treat migraine. There are a significant number of patients who have drug refractory migraine and alternative therapies are needed.
The purpose of this study is to see if ramelteon will reduce the number of migraine headaches over a 12 week period. The safety and tolerability of ramelteon will also be evaluated. Ramelteon has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for insomnia (trouble sleeping); however; ramelteon has not been approved for the prevention of migraines.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate migraine headache frequency in subjects who have migraine with aura and a patent foramen ovale (PFO, a slit-like opening between the right and left upper chambers (atria) of the heart which normally closes at or soon after birth) who are randomized to either undergo closure of the patent foramen ovale or continue with standard medical management.