Wednesday, June 16, 2004

TEACHING COURSES

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

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)*

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