Alberto Raggi, PsyD, PhD, IRCCS Foundation “Carlo Besta” Neurological Institute, Italy
Sheila Crewther, PhD, La Trobe University, Australia
The Journal of Headache and Pain is calling for submissions to our Collection on Brain and Mind.
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Alberto Raggi, PsyD, PhD, IRCCS Foundation “Carlo Besta” Neurological Institute, Italy
Full-time staff senior researcher at the IRCCS Foundation “Carlo Besta” Neurological Institute, with an outstanding experience in biospsychosocial approaches in neurological disorders, and particularly in headaches. In recent years, he developed a specific interest with the implementation of research activity connected to behavioral interventions in migraine.
Sheila Crewther, PhD, La Trobe University, AustraliaDr. Sheila Crewther has professional clinical qualifications in Optometry, Neuropsychology, and Education and extensive research interests in the System Neuroscience of visually driven attention, cognition and actions associated with brain disorders across the lifespan. My multidisciplinary laboratory studies the behavioural, cognitive and molecular effects on brain function of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders in humans and animal models. Our current aim is to better assess, understand and design psychoneuroimmunologically informed management regimes for neurological disorders such as stroke, Parkinson's Disease, Migraine and Post-COVID Neurological Syndrome.
The most recent advancements in the understanding of headache and pain medicine point out that a strict medical approach, based on pharmacotherapy, cannot meet the needs of all patients, and that multimodal approaches are needed.
This collection is aimed to put together the most innovative and groundbreaking piece of research which deal with the biopsychosocial perspective in headache and pain research. It is aimed to be a place where papers dealing with the interconnection between biological aspects of headache and pain-related disorders, psychological implications and treatments, as well as the impact of these conditions at social level will find space and attention.
Examples of articles include primary research papers dealing with translational research and clinical applications of psychosocial interventions, such as behavioral ones, rather than public health approaches aimed to reduce the impact of headache and pain-related disorders, studies addressing lifestyle modification (e.g. diet and physical exercise), risk factors and possible adverse event identification. Literature reviews, especially those exploring the possible impact of risk factors or non-pharmacological treatments in headache and pain disorders, will be considered as well.
Clear identification of outcomes and rigorous approaches to measuring psychosocial outcomes is essential to enhance the quality of papers and the reliability and validity of results.
Resistance to treatments have been assessed in chronic conditions such as migraine, but not in temporomandibular disorders (TMD). This study aimed to identify factors that influence treatment outcome in patien...
Clinical observational evidence suggests a close association between Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) and Mental disorders (MDs). However, the causal relationship between the two remains unclear. This study aims to o...
The optimal management of migraine involves care strategies that reflect what matters most to patients. This usually involves an assessment of treatment efficacy with respect to headache reduction, safety of p...
Pain is influenced by many factors such as personality traits and nociceptive stimuli. This study identified personality traits in patients with trigeminal neuralgia (TN) and investigated the relationships bet...
This Collection welcomes submission of research articles and review articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal.
Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Brain and Mind" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.
Articles will undergo the journal’s peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.
The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.