The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Kiel University invites you to the public inaugural lecture as part of the habilitation procedure of

PD Dr. med. Carl H. Göbel MB BChir (Hons) MA (Cantab), Pain Clinic Kiel,

on the subject

"Migraine and headaches: New findings on clinical phenotypes, pathomechanisms and neurophysiological correlates"

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The public inaugural lecture will take place as a webinar event.

Re-habilitation in the field of: “Neurology”

Monday , April 3, 2023 at 3:30 p.m.
The event will take place online.
Link to the lecture:
https://neuro-media.de/antrittsvorlesung

Migraines and headaches are among the most disabling diseases according to the World Health Organization, comparable to dementia, spinal cord injury, and active psychosis. They are the second most common cause of work disability. These conditions result in high direct and indirect costs. Work disability due to migraines alone costs €3.1 billion per year in Germany, calculated based on 32 million lost workdays. The risk of depression, anxiety disorders, and suicide is 3 to 7 times higher in affected individuals than in healthy individuals. The risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attack, and stroke is 1.5 to 2 times higher than in healthy individuals. This is particularly true for young women under 45. New forms of headaches have emerged for the first time following infection and vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The inaugural lecture will present data on the clinical phenotypes of headaches following vaccination against COVID-19 with the BNT162b2 mRNA and the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine. New, comprehensive analyses of the headache phenotypes of cluster headaches and headaches associated with transient ischemic attacks will also be presented. The complex trigeminocervical pain-modulating mechanisms for the pathophysiology of migraine will be discussed in studies on occipital nerve stimulation. These studies will elucidate the centrally mediated sensitization for migraine. The diagnosis and treatment of headache disorders require a sound clinical neurological analysis. This is key to clarifying specific pathomechanisms and correlates of headache development.