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Research Highlights

Recurrent Headaches Affect Quality of Life as Much as Other Chronic Diseases
A study by Andrew Hershey, MD, PhD, et al, found that migraine headaches can affect children in very much the same way as other long-term illnesses.

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Publications

The Headache Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is active in developing presentations, publications and book chapters examining childhood headache disorders and treatments. We have had over 60 publications from 1999 to 2008. Recent publications include:

  1. Winner, P., Powers, S.W., Kabbouche, M.A., and Hershey, A.D., Diagnosing and Managing Headache in Children, Curr Treat Options Neurol 9:3-13 2007. 
  2.  Hershey, A.D., Gladstein, J., and Winner, P. Chronic Daily Headache in the Pediatric Population, Curr Treat Options Neurol 9:14-22 2007. 
  3.  Hershey A.D., Powers, S.W., Vockell, A.-L.B., LeCates, S.L., Segers, A., Ellinor, P. L., Segers, A., Burdine, D., Manning, P. and Kabbouche, M.A. CoEnzyme-Q10 Deficiency and Response to Supplementation in Pediatric and Adolescent Migraine, Headache 47:73-80 2007. 
  4. Hershey, A.D. Adolescents with migraine: Nature vs. nurture, Neurology 69:12-13 2007 
  5. Winner, P. and Hershey, A.D. Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Migraine in Children. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 11:375-382 2007. 
  6. Hershey, A.D. Genetics of Migraine Headache in Children. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 11:390-395 2007. 
  7. Gilman, D.K., Palermo, T.M., Kabbouche, M.A., Hershey, A.D. and Powers, S.W. Primary Headache and Sleep Disturbances in Adolescents. Headache 47:1189-1194 2007 
  8. Lewis, D.W., Winner, P., Hershey, A.D. and Wasiewski, W.W. Efficacy of zolmitriptan nasal spray in adolescent migraine. Pediatrics 120:390-396 2007. 
  9. Hershey, A.D., Winner, P., Kabbouche, M.A., and Powers, S.W. Headaches. Curr. Opin. Pediatr. 19:663-669 2007. 
  10.  Lewis, D.W. and Hershey, A.D. Harry Potter’s Headaches. Headache 48: 167-168 2008 
  11.  Hershey, A.D., Burdine, D., Liu C., Nick, T.G., Gilbert, D.L., and Glauser, T.A. Assessing quality and normalization of microarrays: case studies using neurological data. Acta Neurol. Scand. 118:29-41 2008. 
  12.  Vannatta, K., Getsoff, E.A., Powers, S.W., Noll, R.B., Gerhardt, C.A and Hershey, A.D. Multiple Perspectives on the Psychological Functioning of Children with and without Migraine. Headache 48:994-1004 2008. 
  13.  Vannatta, K., Getsoff, E.A., Gilman, D.K., Noll, R.B., Gerhardt, C.A Powers, S.W., and Hershey, A.D. Friendships and Social Interactions of School-Aged Children with Migraine. Cephalalgia 28:734-743 2008. 
  14.  Hershey, A.D. Genetics of headache in children: where are we headed? Curr Pain Headache Rep 12:367-372 2008. 
  15. Allen, J.R., Crawford, M.J., Sullivan, S.M., Powers, S.W., and Hershey, A.D. CoEnzyme Q10 Deficiency in Adolescent Migraine. Agro Food Industry Hi-Tech. 19:14-15 2008. 
  16. Kabbouche, M.A., Powers, S.W., Segers, A., LeCates, S., Manning, P., Biederman, S., Vaughan, P., Burdine, D., and Hershey, A.D. Inpatient Treatment of Status Migraine with Dihydroergotomine in Children and Adolescents. Headache 49: 106-109, 2009. 
  17. Hershey, A.D., Powers, S.W., Nelson, T.D., Kabbouche, M.A., Winner, P., Yonker, M., Linder, S.L., Bicknese, A., Sowell, M.K., McClintock, W. and the American Headache Society Pediatric and Adolescent Section. Obesity in the Pediatric Headache Population: A Multi-Center Study. Headache 49: 170-177, 2009. 
  18. Crawford, M.J., Lehman, L., Slater, S., Kabbouche, M.A., LeCates, S.L., Segers, A., Manning, P., Powers, S.W., and Hershey, A.D. Menstrual Migraine in Adolescents. Headache 49: 341-347 2009. 
  19. Hershey, A.D. Menstrual Migraine: How early can it start? Headache 49: 348-349 2009. 
  20. Khatri, R., Hershey, A.D. and Wong, B.W. Prochlorperazine - Treatment for Acute Confusional Migraine. Headache 49: 477-480, 2009. 
  21. Slater, S., Crawford, M.J., Kabbouche, M.A., LeCates, S.L., Biederman, S., Vaughan, P., Segers, A., Manning, P., Burdine, D., Powers, S.W., and Hershey, A.D. Effects of Gender and Age on Pediatric Headache. Cephalalgia (in press). 
  22. Hershey, A.D. Patient Page: Teens, Migraine, Suicide, and Suicidal Thoughts. Neurology 72: e61-e64, 2009.