In the future we aim to improve the diagnosis and treatment of headache and Carhcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Headache
- Epidemiology – prevalence of tension-type headache, migraine including menstrual migraine without aura and menstruel migraine with aura, and secondary chronic headaches
- Genetics – tension-type headache, migraine without aura, migraine with aura and cluster headache
- Clinical – improved description of menstruel migraine without aura and menstruel migraine with aura
- Management – medication overuse headache, and chiropractic treatment of cervicogenic headache and migraine
Inherited neuropathies
- Genetics – Identification of Charcot-Marie-Tooth genes in the Norwegian population
Projects
- Chiropractic treatment of headache - developing methods for blinding in manuel therapy studies, treatment of cervicogen headaches and migraine
- Menstrual migraine - epidemiology, clinical description and developing methods to better Diagnostics
- Medication overuse headache - development of treatment that can ble applied in general practice without the major costs associated with this.
Elected publications
- Braathen GJ, Høyer H, Busk ØL, Tveten K, Skjelbred CF, Russell MB. Variants in the genes DCTN2, DNAH10, LRIG3, and MYO1A are associated with intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in a Norwegian family. Acta Neurol Scand 2015 [Epub ahead of print].
- Kristoffersen ES, Straand J, Vetvik KG, Benth JŠ, Russell MB, Lundqvist C. Brief intervention for medication-overuse headache in primary care. The BIMOH study: a double-blind pragmatic cluster randomised parallel controlled trial. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2015; 86: 505-12.
- Chaibi A, Šaltytė Benth J, Russell MB. Validation of Placebo in a Manual Therapy Randomized Controlled Trial. Sci Rep 2015; 5: 11774.
- Høyer H, Braathen GJ, Busk ØL, Holla ØL, Svendsen M, Hilmarsen HT, Strand L, Skjelbred CF, Russell MB. Genetic diagnosis of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in a population by next-generation sequencing. Biomed Res Int 2014; 210401.
- Russell MB. Headache: Medication overuse headache - seeking a management consensus. Nat Rev Neurol 2014; 10: 309-10.
- Knackstedt H, Kråkenes J, Bansevicius D, Russell MB. Magnetic resonance imaging of craniovertebral structures: clinical significance in cervicogenic headaches. J Headache Pain 2012; 13: 39-44.
- Høyer H, Braathen GJ, Eek AK, Skjelbred CF, Russell MB. Charcot-Marie-Tooth caused by a copy number variation in myelin protein zero. Eur J Med Genet 2011; 54: e580-3.
- Russell MB, Ducros A. Sporadic and familial hemiplegic migraine: pathophysiological mechanisms, clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and management. Lancet Neurol 2011; 10: 457-70.
- Grande RB, Aaseth K, Benth JŠ, Lundqvist C, Russell MB. Reduction in medication-overuse headache after short information. The Akershus study of chronic headache. Eur J Neurol 2011; 18: 129-37.