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Does migraine leave your head spinning? Noninvasive treatment shows early promise

There may be some good news for people with vestibular migraine, a type of migraine that causes vertigo and dizziness with or without headache pain. A small, preliminary study suggests that non-invasive nerve stimulation may show promise as a treatment for vestibular migraine attacks, a condition for which there are currently no approved treatments. “There's a huge need for effective treatments for vestibular migraine attacks,” said study author Shin C. Beh, MD, of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. “People with vestibular migraine do not always have headaches and when they do, they are often less severe than in typical migraine, so the pain-relieving drugs used for typical migraine often are not effective. People can take drugs that suppress the vertigo or the nausea, but those drugs cause drowsiness and make it hard for people to go about their usual activities.”

Beh SC, Friedman DI. Neurology 2019;93:e1715–e1719. doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000008388

Dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Health care use and cost in the last year of life

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Insomnia symptoms and risk of cardiovascular disease among 0.5 million adults: A 10-year cohort

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Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: Report of the NINCDS-ADRDA Work Group* under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease

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Rating neurologic impairment in multiple sclerosis: An expanded disability status scale (EDSS)

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Parkinsonism: onset, progression, and mortality

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Neurosurgical horizons in Parkinson's disease

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Autosomal dominant cerebellar phenotypes: the genotype has settled the issue

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