Main description:

Update on Emerging Treatments for Migraine, Volume 255, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Contents:

1. Update in migraine preventive treatment

Tzu-Hsien Lai and Tzu-Chou Huang

2. Therapeutic implications of cortical spreading depression models in migraine

Tsubasa Takizawa, Cenk Ayata and Shih-Pin Chen

3. Electrophysiological basis for antiepileptic drugs in migraine prevention

Kuan-Lin Lai, Li-Ling Hope Pan, Kwong-Kum Liao and Wei-Ta Chen

4. Targeting the 5-HT1B/1D and 5-HT1F receptors for acute migraine treatment

Pin-Chung Huang, Fu-Chi Yang, Ching-Mao Chang and Chun-Pai Yang

5. A new era for migraine: The role of calcitonin gene-related peptide in the trigeminovascular system

Shu-Ting Chen and Jr-Wei Wu

6. Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-targeted therapies as preventive and acute treatments for migraine-The monoclonal antibodies and gepants

Chia-Chun Chiang and Todd J Schwedt

7. OnabotulinumtoxinA injection in the treatment of chronic migraine

Yen-Feng Wang

8. The visual system as target of non-invasive brain stimulation for migraine treatment: Current insights and future challenges

Chi Ieong Lau, Wei-Hung Chen and Vincent Walsh

9. Update on noninvasive neuromodulation for migraine treatment-Vagus nerve stimulation

Schoenen Jean and Ambrosini Anna

10. Managing migraine in pregnancy and breastfeeding

Simy K. Parikh, Maria Victoria Delbono and Stephen D. Silberstein

11. Insights into pathophysiology and treatment of visual snow syndrome: A systematic review

Ozan Eren and Christoph J. Schankin

12. Targeting migraine treatment with neuroimaging-Pharmacological neuroimaging in headaches

Kuan-Po Peng and Arne May

13. Therapeutic role of melatonin in migraine prophylaxis: Is there a link between sleep and migraine?

Tae-Jin Song, Byung-Su Kim and Min Kyung Chu

14. Clinical and biobehavioral perspectives: Is medication overuse headache a behavior of dependence?

Chi Ieong Lau, Mu-N. Liu, Wei-Hung Chen, Vincent Walsh and Shuu-Jiun Wang

15. The genetics of migraine and the path to precision medicine

M. Zameel Cader