Active clinical trials for "Migraine without Aura"

This comparative effectiveness study will clarify current first-line preventive treatment approaches for use by neurologists, psychologists, and primary care providers in the context of real world care, and will demonstrate the feasibility of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) via telehealth for youth with migraine. The focus is on applying evidence-based care and enhancing access to it. CBT via telehealth while taking a clinically-prescribed, pill-based prevention therapy (amitriptyline) will be compared to CBT via telehealth alone.

This study uses a factorial research design to evaluate a nurse delivered mind body intervention using different doses of 3 treatment components to determine the optimized treatment for headache day reduction.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of clorazepate in addition to the usual medication for treating migraine attack in the emergency room

Acupuncture has been a means of treating headaches and migraine since 2002 and is now a World Health Organisation-recognized prophylactic treatment for migraine. Brain activation/de-activation via acupuncture modifies the haemodynamic responses in the brain which may impact the sensorial, cognitive and affective dimensions of pain. Randomized studies on patients suffering from aura-free migraine have shown that the painkilling effect of regular acupuncture sessions on the cerebral substratum, compared with simulated sham-type acupuncture, can reduce the frequency of bouts of migraine, number of days with headaches and also their intensity. Modifications to the white matter (WM) and grey matter (GM) occur after repeated sessions of acupuncture treatment for pain and these are observable via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It is a very sensitive technique and often used to detect functional and structural brain changes.

Migraine without aura is a common kind of nervous system diseases that can easily cause recurrent headache, leading to severe impacts on quality of life and health care costs. Current therapeutic options for migraine without aura mainly include flunarizine hydrochloride that can relieve vasospasm. Nevertheless, the efficacy of flunarizine hydrochloride is always limited by inevitable side effects, which result in poor compliance of patients. Moreover, for some most suffering patients, the control of pain is often unsatisfactory despite of the administration of complex treatment combinations. As a non-pharmaceutical therapy, acupuncture is widely used for a wide range of pain conditions. Thus, it might be an alternative treatment for migraine without aura. The aim of this randomized controlled trial is to investigate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture therapy in patients with migraine without aura from the perspective of Regulating Ying and Wei.

In a real-world population of adults with migraine, the investigators would like to investigate whether 50 mg diclofenac potassium is non-inferior to 75 mg rimegepant in terms of pain freedom at 2 hours after drug intake.

In a real-world population of adults with migraine, the investigators would like to investigate whether 12.5 mg almotriptan is non-inferior to 50 mg ubrogepant in terms of pain freedom at 2 hours after drug intake.

The study aims to explore the effects of Sumatriptan on Levcromakalim-induced migraine in individuals with migraine without aura.

Migraine is the most common headache disorder, prevalent in 18% of females and 6% of males. Emergency room visits, physician consults, hospitalizations, medications, and indirect costs such as lost work days and decreased productivity place the global economic burden of migraines at over 20 billion dollars. It is prevalent in 28 million people in the US alone. Symptoms include unilateral, throbbing, debilitating headache pain accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia, and phonophobia. Upwards of 75% of migraine patients have reduced functionability, have lost time at work, and 1/3 of patients require bed rest to manage the symptoms. The health-related impact on quality of life was comparable with that experienced by patients with congestive heart failure, hypertension, or diabetes. While the burden of migraines on our society is clear, the pathophysiology of migraines remains largely unknown. The trigeminovascular system, including the external and internal carotid arteries and their associated sensory fibers which subserve the head have long been implicated in the pain and cutaneous allodynia experienced by migraine patients. Wolff in 1953, was the first to posit that migraine headache pain is the caused by dilation or circumferential expansion of the extracranial carotid artery. He demonstrated that migraineurs had twice the pulse amplitude in their external carotid arteries compared to control subjects and these changes were directly correlated to migraine symptoms. In a 2008 study, randomized migraineurs received nitroglycerin via peripheral IV or placebo for 20 minutes prior to obtaining magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). Nitroglycerin, a potent dilator of blood vessels, reliably induced migraine-like pain in up to 80% of patients, and transient dilation of vessels of up to nearly 40%, mostly in the extracranial vessels. Sumatriptan's efficacy in migraine relief provides further evidence for this theory, as it is a selective extracranial vessel constrictor which does not cross the blood brain barrier. The goal of this current work is to utilize the direct, real-time angiography, which provides a high resolution map of vasculature, and demonstrate changes in vessel flow in patients who have migraine headache attacks. This information may guide therapeutic interventions in the future in order to better treat these migraine patients.

Naltrexone has a dual function as an opioid receptor antagonist and a Toll-Like Receptor-4 (TLR4) antagonist. While primarily approved in a 50 mg tablet for treating opioid and alcohol addiction by blocking opioid receptors, naltrexone's TLR4-blocking effect is also significant. This action reduces the levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines responsible for pain generation, primarily in the trigeminal ganglion and dorsal root ganglia. These sites play a key role in the effectiveness of naltrexone as a pain-alleviating agent. Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol, an over-the-counter non-opioid analgesic and antipyretic agent. Both naltrexone and acetaminophen have demonstrated effectiveness in the treatment of acute migraine, physical pain, and emotional pain. However, while naltrexone has demonstrated potential in animal and human studies, confirmatory clinical trials for pain treatment in humans are still lacking. Additionally, it is important to note that around 50% of migraine patients experience co-occurring anxiety. Therefore, this study aims to assess the effectiveness of naltrexone-acetaminophen in treating migraine and co-occurring anxiety compared to each drug alone and placebo. The sponsor has conducted four clinical studies showing promising results of naltrexone-acetaminophen in treating migraine, chronic low-back pain, and emotional pain.