Migraine: a review on its history, global epidemiology, risk factors, and comorbidities

P Amiri, S Kazeminasab, SA Nejadghaderi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Migraine affects more than one billion individuals each year across the world, and is one of
the most common neurologic disorders, with a high prevalence and morbidity, especially …

Sex differences in the epidemiology, clinical features, and pathophysiology of migraine

KG Vetvik, EA MacGregor - The Lancet Neurology, 2017 - thelancet.com
Migraine is two to three times more prevalent in women than men, and women report a
longer attack duration, increased risk of headache recurrence, greater disability, and a …

Global, regional, and national burden of migraine in 204 countries and territories, 1990 to 2019

S Safiri, H Pourfathi, A Eagan, MA Mansournia… - Pain, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 were used to report the burden
of migraine in 204 countries and territories during the period 1990 to 2019, through a …

Understanding the broad influence of sex hormones and sex differences in the brain

BS McEwen, TA Milner - Journal of neuroscience research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Sex hormones act throughout the entire brain of both males and females via both genomic
and nongenomic receptors. Sex hormones can act through many cellular and molecular …

Migraine: multiple processes, complex pathophysiology

R Burstein, R Noseda, D Borsook - Journal of Neuroscience, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Migraine is a common, multifactorial, disabling, recurrent, hereditary neurovascular
headache disorder. It usually strikes sufferers a few times per year in childhood and then …

Global, regional, and national time trends in incidence for migraine, from 1990 to 2019: an age-period-cohort analysis for the GBD 2019

L Fan, Y Wu, J Wei, F Xia, Y Cai, S Zhang… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Background The majority of epidemiological studies on migraine have been conducted in a
specific country or region, and there is a lack of globally comparable data. We aim to report …

Sex differences in the prevalence, symptoms, and associated features of migraine, probable migraine and other severe H eadache: results of the A merican migraine …

DC Buse, EW Loder, JA Gorman… - … : The Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Background The strikingly higher prevalence of migraine in females compared with males is
one of the hallmarks of migraine. A large global body of evidence exists on the sex …

Psychological processing in chronic pain: a neural systems approach

LE Simons, I Elman, D Borsook - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Our understanding of chronic pain involves complex brain circuits that include sensory,
emotional, cognitive and interoceptive processing. The feed-forward interactions between …

Giving researchers a headache–sex and gender differences in migraine

L Al-Hassany, J Haas, M Piccininni, T Kurth… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Migraine is a common neurovascular disorder affecting~ 15% of the general population.
Ranking second in the list of years lived with disability (YLD), people living with migraine are …

Sex in the brain: hormones and sex differences

J Marrocco, BS McEwen - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Contrary to popular belief, sex hormones act throughout the entire brain of both males and
females via both genomic and nongenomic receptors. Many neural and behavioral functions …