Hypnic headache: Clinical features, pathophysiology, and treatment

Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 905-909

  Evers, Stefan ^a   Goadsby, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CAFFEINE; CLONIDINE; ERGOTAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUNARIZINE; INDOMETACIN; LITHIUM; MELATONIN; METHYSERGIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PIZOTIFEN; PREDNISONE; SUMATRIPTAN; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; AGED; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPNIC HEADACHE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OXYGEN BREATHING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASE;

EID: 0037465830     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.WNL.0000046582.21771.9C     Document Type: Review

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