12th European Headache Federation (EHF) Congress

12th European Headache Federation (EHF) Congress is organized by Duerre Congressi Srl and will be held from Sep 28 - 30, 2018 at Congress Palace, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

Conference Objectives are :
Committed to the European Headache Federation mission of Science and Education through Renovation, the program will include:
• The historical EHF lecture and the lecture assigned in rotation to one of the 38 federate EHF Societies will open the Congress.
• Clinical lectures on addiction and medication overuse headache, cluster and post-traumatic headache, structural brain changes, cephalic and non-cephalic pains in adolescents vs adults, role of gender, association with neurovascular risk factors and spontaneous intracranial hypotension, clinical and scientific understanding of the comorbidity between migraine and epilepsy, the pathophysiology of occipital headaches, and what can be learned from the inconsistency of migraine triggers.
• Treatment-focused lectures on CGRP monoclonal antibodies and antagonists, endocannabinoid and marijuana, OnabotulinumtoxinA, neuromodulation, novel targets beyond CGRP, guideline for implementing individualized headache management medicine, expectation role in treatment, headache management if the elderly and management of secondary headache disorders, and how all currently available and novel migraine drugs may be placed in the market of headache.
• Scientific lectures on role of inflammation, the hypothalamus, the brainstem, the blood brain barrier, genetics, environment, aura/CSD, and CGRP (to name some) in migraine, and in-depth discussion on reliability and predictability of novel animal models of migraine and other headaches.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.