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Wednesday,
June 16, 2004
Thursday,
June 17, 2004
Friday,
June 18, 2004
Saturday,
June 19, 2004

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Wednesday, June 16, 2004

TEACHING COURSES

10:30 – 13:00

Teaching Course: HEADACHES FOR GENERAL PRACTITIONERS (Part I)

Aim of course: To give a comprehensive overview of headache diagnosis and treatmentAim at: General Practitioners
Aim at: General Practitioners

Chair:
V. Pfaffenrath, Germany
P. van der Weerd, The Netherlands

Hall A

Introduction
V. Pfaffenrath, Germany

Diagnosis of headache: taking the patient’s history (migraine with aura, migraine without aura, tension-type headache and drug-induced headache)
A.J. Dowson, UK

Migraine: genetics, acute and prophylactic treatment, non-pharmacological therapy, sense and nonsense of trigger factors
H. Kaube, UK

Tension-type headache: distinction from other headaches, acute and prophylactic treatment, non-pharmacological treatment
A.J. Dowson, UK

Cluster headache: live patient demonstration with diagnosis and treatment
H. Kaube, UK

Cervicogenic and posttraumatic Headache
V. Pfaffenrath, Germany

14:00 – 16:45

Teaching Course: HEADACHES FOR GENERAL PRACTITIONERS (Part II)

Hall A

Headaches in children
N.P. Van Duijn, The Netherlands

Hormones and headaches, including menstrual migraine
E.G.M. Couturier, The Netherlands

Diagnosis and treatment of medication overuse headache
N.J. Wiendels, The Netherlands

Frequent mistakes in diagnosis and treatment of headaches (drug abuse, no diary, indication for MR and CT, red flag headaches such as subarachanoid haemmorhage, temporal arteritis)
A.J. Dowson, UK

Ask the Expert  * and Two diagnostic videos (optional)*

14:00 – 16:45

Teaching Course: EXPERIMENTAL MODELS FOR MIGRAINE AND THEIR VALUE IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT 

Hall B
Aim: To present various experimental models for migraine and discuss their relevance in drug development
Aimed at: Pharmacologists and headache-specialists
Chair:
R. Hargreaves,
USA
A. Maassen Van Den Brink
, The Netherlands

Neurogenic dual vasodilatation in vivo
R. Hargreaves, USA

Neurogenic plasma extravasation and central nociception
V. Limmroth, Germany

CSD - investigations using MRI
M.F. James, UK

Experimental models for migraine and their values in drug development
R. Burstein, USA

Nitric oxide based models in the human
H. Iversen, Denmark

In vivo and in vitro vascular models
A. Maassen Van Den Brink, The Netherlands

Use of transgenic animals in migraine research
A.M.J.M. van den Maagdenberg, The Netherlands

Summing up

16:45-17:10 Get-Together Reception at the De Doelen Center
 
17:00-18:30

OPENING CEREMONY 

 
  Congress Opening:
Prof. P.J. van der Maas
Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
  EHF lecture:
Prof. Dr. H-C. Diener (Essen)
19:00-20:00
Mayor's Reception at the City Hall

 

 

 
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