Frontal headache in a patient with right temporal epilepsy: A video-EEG case report of ictal epileptic headache

Headache 2023 Mar;63(3):455-458.doi: 10.1111/head.14475. Epub 2023 Mar 10. Geneviève Demarquay, Emilie Sala, Ahmed Adham, Jean-Philippe Camdessanché, Philippe Convers, Laure Mazzola Abstract Background: Ictal epileptic headache (IEH) is caused by a focal epileptic seizure. The diagnosis can be challenging when the headache is isolated without any

Pmu1a, a novel spider toxin with dual inhibitory activity at pain targets hNaV 1.7 and hCaV 3 voltage-gated channels

The FEBS journal 2023 Jul;290(14):3688-3702. doi: 10.1111/febs.16773. Epub 2023 Mar 23. Julien Giribaldi, Jean Chemin, Marie Tuifua, Jennifer R Deuis, Rosanna Mary, Irina Vetter, David T Wilson, Norelle L Daly, Christina I Schroeder, Emmanuel Bourinet, Sébastien Dutertre Abstract Venom-derived peptides targeting ion channels involved in pain are regarded as a promising

A photoswitchable inhibitor of TREK channels controls pain in wild-type intact freely moving animals

Nature communications . 2023 Mar 1;14(1):1160. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36806-4. Arnaud Landra-Willm, Ameya Karapurkar, Alexia Duveau, Anne Amandine Chassot, Lucille Esnault, Gerard Callejo, Marion Bied, Stephanie Häfner, Florian Lesage, Brigitte Wdziekonski, Anne Baron, Pascal Fossat, Laurent Marsollier, Xavier Gasull, Eric Boué-Grabot, Michael A Kienzler, Guillaume Sandoz Abstract By endowing light control of neuronal activity, optogenetics and photopharmacology are

Identification of Lipid Biomarkers for Chronic Joint Pain Associated with Different Joint Diseases

Biomolecules 2023 Feb 9;13(2):342. doi: 10.3390/biom13020342. Spiro Khoury, Jenny Colas, Véronique Breuil, Eva Kosek, Aisha S Ahmed, Camilla I Svensson, Fabien Marchand, Emmanuel Deval, Thierry Ferreira Abstract Lipids, especially lysophosphatidylcholine LPC16:0, have been shown to be involved in chronic joint pain through the activation of acid-sensing ion

Guidelines of the International Headache Society for Controlled Clinical Trials in Cluster Headache

Cephalalgia 2022 Dec;42(14):1450-1466 doi: 10.1177/03331024221120266. Epub 2022 Oct 21. Jean Schoenen, Agneta Henriette Snoer, Roemer B Brandt, Rolf Fronczek, Diana Y Wei, Chin-Sang Chung, Hans-Christoph Diener, David W Dodick, Denys Fontaine, Peter J Goadsby, Manjit Singh Matharu, Arne May, James S McGinley, Stewart J Tepper, Rigmor Højland Jensen, Michel D Ferrari; IHS Standing Committee for Clinical

Sympathetic skin response as an objective tool to estimate stimulus-associated arousal in a human model of hyperalgesia

Neurophysiologie clinique = Clinical neurophysiology 2022 Nov;52(6):436-445. doi: 10.1016/j.neucli.2022.10.002. Epub 2022 Oct 26. Charbel Salameh, Caroline Perchet, Koichi Hagiwara, Luis Garcia-Larrea Abstract Background: Pain is a private experience, whose assessment relies on subjective self-reporting. Inaccurate communication renders pain evaluation unreliable in individuals with alteration of

Mechanisms of Action of the Peptide Toxins Targeting Human and Rodent Acid-Sensing Ion Channels and Relevance to Their In Vivo Analgesic Effects

Toxins 2022 Oct 17;14(10):709.doi: 10.3390/toxins14100709. Clément Verkest, Miguel Salinas, Sylvie Diochot, Emmanuel Deval, Eric Lingueglia, Anne Baron Abstract Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) are voltage-independent H+-gated cation channels largely expressed in the nervous system of rodents and humans. At least six isoforms (ASIC1a, 1b, 2a, 2b,

Better Fields or Currents? A Head-to-Head Comparison of Transcranial Magnetic (rTMS) Versus Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Neuropathic Pain

Neurotherapeutics Randomized Controlled Trial . 2023 Jan;20(1):207-219.  doi: 10.1007/s13311-022-01303-x. Epub 2022 Oct 20. Nathalie André-Obadia, Hasan Hodaj, Enkelejda Hodaj, Emile Simon, Chantal Delon-Martin, Luis Garcia-Larrea Abstract While high-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation (HF-rTMS) is now included in the armamentarium to treat chronic neuropathic pain (NP), direct-current anodal