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All information about further training and conferences on headache research, headache diagnostics and headache therapy

September 25, 2014 September 25, 2014

Headaches in children and adolescents

Today, science distinguishes between 363 headache diagnoses. Three types of headache are particularly important: Migraine pain is caused by a so-called neurogenic inflammation in the blood vessels (veins) of the meninges. Certain nerve messengers are released there, which cause local inflammation. [...]

June 2, 2014 June 2, 2014

“I have chronic migraines”

Migraine is a neurological disease. Most of those affected do not notice the disease unless they encounter it in an acute attack. Migraine, especially chronic migraine, is not a simple headache, but one of the worst pain conditions that afflict people. Women in particular are very severely affected. So it's not just the typical one-sided, stabbing, throbbing, pulsating headaches - no, the entire body is affected. Sometimes the attack begins with aura symptoms, and you also suffer from nausea and/or vomiting, dizziness, exhaustion, hypersensitivity to light and noise, social isolation and depression. Migraine is a primary disease in its own right and not a symptom of another disease! Those affected are neither unwilling to work, mentally ill nor are they looking for attention. They just expect not to be discriminated against by prejudice. Three affected people describe their illness...

April 7, 2014 April 7, 2014

ARD Fact 8.4.: Widespread disease headaches

Migraines and other chronic headaches are the cause of the most common pain problems in humans. In recent years, extensive studies have been carried out on the burden on quality of life, the loss of ability to work, the occurrence of comorbidities and [...]

March 21, 2014 March 21, 2014

Prof. Göbel receives the German Pain Prize 2014

25th German Pain and Palliative Care Day: Professor Dr. Hartmut Göbel awarded with Pain Prize - German Prize for Pain Medicine goes to Kiel Frankfurt March 21, 2014 - For his commitment to the care of migraine and headache patients, the [...]

March 21, 2014 March 21, 2014

Prof. Käßmann: Pain and death are a reality of life

Käßmann advocates a humane approach to pain and finiteness Frankfurt, March 20, 2014 - "Pain and death in Luther's world view and what we can learn from it" was the topic of the special [...]

March 20, 2014 March 20, 2014

30 years of the German Society for Pain Medicine (DGS)

“30 years of DGS – and still far from reaching our goal” Interview with Dr. med. Gerhard HH Müller-Schwefe, President of the German Society for Pain Medicine eV (DGS) Dr. Müller-Schwefe, the DGS, which has been [...]

March 13, 2014 March 13, 2014

concerns: widespread disease migraine in the SWR

Play video: click on image Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at 8:15 p.m. on SWR television Nausea, dizziness, splitting headaches: around eight million people in Germany suffer from migraines. “concerns” is dedicated to Wednesday, [...]

March 12, 2014 March 12, 2014

Stop headaches in children

Around half of children of primary school age experience headaches and migraines at school, at home or in their free time. Six percent of them have headaches once a week or more often. Without early help, [...]

February 21, 2014 February 21, 2014

Center for Rare Headache Disorders

Among the 363 main headache diagnoses that are classified today, in addition to the common diseases migraine and tension-type headache, there are a number of very rare headache disorders. These include, in particular, episodic and chronic cluster headaches (CK), which [...]