Migraine Biology, Diagnosis, and Co-Morbidities

Jerry W. Swanson, MD, is a consultant in the Department of Neurology and Professor of Neurology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. Dr. Swanson received his medical degree from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. He completed a neurology residency at Mayo Clinic. He earned the Master of Health Professions degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been on the staff of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., since 1982. He is former chair of the Headache Division in the Department of Neurology and founding director of the headache medicine fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Dr. Swanson is board-certified in Neurology and in the subspecialty of Headache Medicine. He has written extensively about headache and other neurologic disorders. Swanson has made more than 100 presentations at national and international meetings, published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles, and numerous book chapters; he is an associate editor for the journal Headache and is a neurology editor for MayoClinic.com, a leading site for health information for the public. He has co-edited two books including The Mayo Clinic on Headache, a highly praised book for the lay public. He is a neurology editor for MayoClinic.com and is the headache topic editor and neurology editor-in-chief for UpToDate. He was a founding member for the UCNS Headache Medicine examination committee and is currently serving another term on the committee. He was the founding director of the Headache Medicine fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Dr. Swanson has served in several leadership roles in the American Academy of Neurology and the American Headache Society and was a member of the International Headache Congress scientific program committee. He has been the recipient of the Mayo Medical School Dean’s Recognition Award. Dr. Manjit Matharu is a Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. He received a BSc (First Class Honours) University of Manchester and MB, ChB (Honours Degree) University of Manchester. He earned a PhD at the University of London. He completed his residency in Neurology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, The Royal London Hospital and Homerton Hospital in London in 2007. Dr Matharu’s major research interests include functional and structural imaging in Primary headaches, trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias and neurostimulation for intractable headaches. He has authored over 100 scientific papers. Dr. Matharu is the clinical and academic lead of the Headache Group at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, which is widely recognized as one of the foremost Headache Centers worldwide. He has lectured on headache topics both domestically and internationally.

Section I. Migraine: The Human and Societal Impact
1. History of migraine
2. Societal and personal impact of migraine
3. Epidemiology of migraine

Section II. Biology of Migraine
4. The anatomy of head pain
5. Migraine headache pathophysiology
6. Pathophysiology of migraine aura
7. Genetics of Migraine: delineation of contemporary understanding of the genetic underpinning of migraine
8. What imaging has revealed about migraine and chronic migraine
9. What has neurophysiology revealed about migraine and chronic migraine
10. Migraine prodromes and migraine triggers

Section III. Migraine Diagnosis
11. Migraine without aura
12. Migraine with aura
13. Chronic migraine and medication overuse

Section IV. Episodic Syndromes That May Be Associated with Migraine
14. Infantile colic
15. Abdominal migraine and cyclical vomiting syndrome
16. Alternating hemiplegia of childhood
17. Benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood
18. Benign paroxysmal torticollis