Active clinical trials for "Migraine Disorders"

A study to assess the safety and efficacy of MK0974 for preventing migraines in patients with episodic migraine.

The primary objective of this Study is to compare the effect of transcatheter device closure of atrial shunting to a non-closure control group over a period from cessation of procedure related medication at 3 months until 9 months post randomization by determining the proportion of patients that experience a 50% or more reduction in the baseline monthly migraine attack frequency in each group.

The investigators' study plans to randomize treatment naive patients with vestibular migraine to an 8 week trial of an escalating dose of either nortriptyline or topiramate followed by an 8 week crossover to the other drug if patient is willing, if patient wants to stay on first medication we will just continue to follow. During the first 8 weeks if there is an intolerance to the first drug they can be switched to the other drug at any point and then followed on that medication for the remainder of the study. Response to therapy will be quantified by the Migraine Specific Quality of Life (MSQ) and Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) administered at multiple time points during the study. Three groups of patients that will be eligible for the study will include 1)Patients with Neuhauser dVM; 2)Patients with pVM; and 3) Patients with dizziness that falls outside the Neuhauser criteria (non-Neuhauser vestibular migraine or nNVM). The investigators' hypothesis is that even patients with dizziness outside of the Neuhauser dVM and pVM spectrum will respond to treatment for vestibular migraine, and thus likely have migraine as a cause of their dizziness. Previous research by our group has suggested that such patients do in fact respond to migraine therapy1. A second goal of the study is to evaluate the comparative efficacy of nortriptyline and topiramate in the treatment of these three subgroups of patients with vestibular migraine.

This study will be conducted to evaluate the safety and efficacy of sumatriptan nasal powder (AVP-825) compared to placebo in the acute treatment of migraine in adolescent participants, 12 through 17 years of age.

The purposes of this study are to assess whether subjects treated with BOTOX will: have a decrease in the frequency and intensity of migraine headaches experience improvements in quality of life experience a reduction in the frequency of health care services obtained.

Greater Occipital Nerve Blocks (GONB) are a common procedure used for the treatment of headache. The GONB procedure involves a series of injections into the greater occipital nerve (a spinal nerve located at the back of your head). The purpose of this study is to determine whether GONB is effective for the treatment of prolonged migraine attacks. This study is placebo controlled, which means that half of the patients participating will receive injections of active study drug (lidocaine plus bupivicaine) and half of the patients will receive injections of saline (placebo). The study is also blinded which means that neither you nor the study staff will know whether you received active study drug or placebo. The study remains blinded only for the first 30 minutes, at which point additional treatments (including GONB) can be administered at the discretion of your treating physician. 40 patients are expected to participate in this research study. This study is being conducted at Thomas Jefferson University only.

The purpose of this two arm controlled double-blind study is to determine the safety and effectiveness of PFO closure (closing a hole in the wall of the heart) in reducing the frequency of migraine headaches, in patients who experience migraine headaches and have a PFO, compared to medical therapy alone.

The objective of this study is to compare clinical efficacy and tolerability of valproic acid (VPA) therapy versus dihydroergotamine (DHE) as abortive therapy in pediatric migraine.

The purpose of this study is to study interactions between genes, lifestyle environmental factors like foods, nutritional supplements and non-invasive medical devices and health factors that can be measured without specialized medical equipment in order to develop lifestyle recommendations tailored to individual genetics for a host of common chronic health conditions.

This study investigates whether non-invasive brain stimulation, given for 20 minutes/once per day for ten days (M-F) can reduce migraine pain. Thirty patients will receive this treatment, while thirty will receive a "sham" procedure. Up to thirty healthy volunteers will be asked to undergo baseline assessments only (imaging, but no brain stimulation). Healthy volunteer data may be used from a prior study (NINDS-K23062946 project [IRBMED #HUM00027383; Dr. Alexandre DaSilva, Principal Investigator]).