Vestibular schwannoma creating pressure and numbness: Though an ear tumour, large ones can press on nearby cranial nerves, causing headaches, facial numbness and pressure sensations. Salivary gland ...

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is a rare and often overlooked condition that could have cost one patient her life.And ...

Liraglutide, a medication commonly used to treat diabetes, has shown promising results in reducing chronic migraine in ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

For adults with obesity and migraine, liraglutide reduces migraine burden, with reductions in mean monthly headache days and ...

Dr. Kimberly Trotter distilled four high-impact disease clusters—gout, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus ...

The pituitary gland, located at the base of the brain, secretes hormones that control vital bodily functions and also regulates the activity of other ...

"We think that, by modulating cerebrospinal fluid pressure and reducing intracranial venous sinuses compression, these drugs produce a decrease in the release of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) ...

We report a case in which an intracranial dural arteriovenous fistula (DAVF) developed after endovascular treatment of a patient with idiopathic intracranial hypertension with venous sinus stenting ...

The SPAF II [35] study revealed an increased risk of anticoagulation-induced intracranial bleeding in patients >75 years of age (1.8% per year), probably due to the fact that the range of INR used ...

Objective Intracranial venous sinus stenosis (IVSS) is the most common finding associated with idiopathic intracranial hypertension. A pressure gradient >8–10 mm Hg across the stenosis is considered ...

Individual identification based on radiographic frontal sinus comparison is considered a reliable means of establishing positive identification. An ante mortem craniography was compared to a ...