Migraine: what to do?

Migraine is a primary episodic headache. Symptoms typically last from 4 to 72 h and can be severe. The pain is often unilateral, throbbing, worsens during physical exertion, and is accompanied by symptoms such as nausea and hypersensitivity to light, sound, or smell. Auras occur in about 25% of patients, usually just before but sometimes after the headache. The diagnosis is clinical. Treatment uses triptans, dihydroergotamine, antiemetics and analgesics. Prevention is based on lifestyle modification (e.g., sleep-related habits or diet) and drug therapy (e.g., beta-blockers, amitriptyline, topiramate, divalproex).

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The damage caused by the pandemic to couple sexuality

The pandemic seems to have put a strain on our sex lives. In a sense, Covid-19 has been shown to be toxic to sexuality. Why ? Also, could the damage be lasting?

The brain of the pregnant woman

The traditional biomedical conception of pregnancy examines the mother-child exchange in a unidirectional sense, from mother to child. Biological changes that medicine records go in the aforementioned direction: increased iron

Lumbar vertebral stenosis

Lumbar vertebral stenosis is the narrowing of the lumbar spinal canal that compresses spinal nerves and nerve roots in the cauda equina before they exit the foramina. Causes positional back

Depression in Italy: women and the unemployed most at risk

According to a study by Istat, depression is the most prevalent mental disorder in Italy, where it affects 2.8 million people. The disease is increasingly on the rise, especially among

Glucose control in diabetic disease

Values measuring blood sugar levels are different between healthy people and people with diabetes.

Western culture and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder usually based on symptoms derived from the presence of obsessions and compulsions.

Psychosomatic itching

Itching can sometimes be psychosomatic in nature, caused by severe states of anxiety or stress. Psychosomatic itching is localized to a specific location on the body, not resulting from internal

In hair a clue to schizophrenia, which will make early diagnoses of the condition possible

A newly identified biomarker in human hair appears to be related to a type of schizophrenia. In addition to providing new information about the condition , the discovery could help

Stroke: here’s what to do

Stroke is a life-threatening emergency. It occurs when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures or becomes obstructed, due to a blood clot. In this case, the brain does not

Panic attacks and addictions

Sometimes disorders such as panic attack can also occur in the presence of other issues such as those related to the use of addictive substances, such as alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and even more so amphetamines, drugs, or drugs such as cannabis or cocaine.

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Emotional crisis

In current usage, the word “crisis” has a dramatic meaning, i.e., the transition from a condition of stability to a variability of previously assumed equilibria, holding homeostasis as the sole

Restless leg syndrome

Restless legs syndrome is a chronic disorder characterized by the onset of a feeling of general leg discomfort, which occurs when the legs are kept still even for short periods

Hemorrhagic stroke

According to the official definition of the World Health Organization (WHO), stroke corresponds to a “sudden onset of signs and/or symptoms referable to local and/or global deficits in brain function,

Sleep and menopause

Sleep disorders are one of the health problems most often reported by women approaching menopause and in the period after (climacteric). The need for sleep naturally tends to decrease with

Deep brain stimulation

The deep brain stimulation (Deep Brain Stimulation, DBS) is a neurosurgical method involving the implantation in the brain of electrodes which, appropriately positioned and activated by a pulse generator inserted

Jet lag

Jet-lag is a sleep disorder that affects those who travel by crossing at least 3-4 time zones, either westward or eastward, due mainly to the temporary failure of synchronization between

Postpartum depression

Postpartum depression is a mood disorder characterized by symptoms overlapping with those of major depression and differing from the latter essentially in that it occurs in women a few weeks

Obstructive sleep apnea

Repetitive episodes of upper airway obstruction may occur during sleep, often accompanied by reduced oxygen saturation. Such episodes are accompanied in almost all cases by snoring. Apneas often end with

Meniere’s Syndrome

Meniere’s syndrome is a balance disorder characterized by recurrent and unpredictable “attacks” involving the onset of intense dizziness, associated with reduced hearing, whistling and buzzing. Each attack is heralded by

Senile vascular dementia

Senile vascular dementia corresponds to a process of cognitive decline that goes beyond the physiological reduction in intellectual capacity associated with aging. In most cases, vascular dementia is related to

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