Migraine Awareness Week 21st to 27th September 2026

 




Migraine Awareness Week aims to change the perception of migraine and highlight how it can impact every aspect of a sufferer’s life. The purpose of the campaign is to raise awareness, educate and start the conversation about migraine.

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES 

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources on this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS   

·         Oxford Textbook of Otolaryngology; Phillips, John S; Powell, Steven M; et al; 2026; (Oxford University Press) – available as both a Keele and an NHS e-book.

·         Comprehensive Review of Headache Medicine; Levin, Morris; 2025; 2nd edition; (Oxford University Press)– available as both a Keele and an NHS e-book.

·         Oxford Textbook of Vertigo and Imbalance; Bronstein, Adolfo M; 2025; 2nd edition; (Oxford University Press) – available as both a Keele and an NHS e-book (previous edition available in print).

·         Introduction to clinical neurology; Gelb, Douglas James; 2024; (Oxford University Press); 6th edition – available as both a Keele and NHS e-book.

·         Dizziness and vertigo: an introduction and practical guide; Kanegaonkar, Rahul Govind; Tysome, James Russell; 2024; 2nd edition; (CRC Press).

·         Headache and facial pain; Newman, Lawrence C; Levin, Morris; Halker, Rashmi; et al; 2022; 2nd edition; (Oxford University Press)– available as both a Keele and an NHS e-book.

·         Navigating life with migraine and other headaches; Young, William B; Silberstein, Stephen D; 2018; (Oxford University Press).

·         Gender and migraine; Maassen van den Brink, Antoinette; 2019; (Springer).

·         Migraine; Kozubski, Wojciech; 2020; (InTechOpen) – available as an Open Access e-book.

·         Migraine Neuroscience; Vécsei, László; 2024; (MDPI) – available online as an Open Access e-book.

·         Clinical pain management: a practical guide; Mary E Lynch, Kenneth Craig, Philip Peng; 2022; (Wiley Blackwell) – available as both a Keele and an NHS e-book.

 

JOURNALS   

·         Journal of headache and pain (Online); European Headache Federation; (BioMed Central) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2011 onwards.

·         Journal of oral & facial pain and headache; American Academy of Orofacial Pain; European Academy of Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction; (MRE Press) – available as Open Access e-journal from 2022.

·         Cephalalgia (Online); International Headache Society, issuing body; (SAGE Publications) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 1996.

·         Neurology open access; American Academy of Neurology; (Wolters Kluwer Health) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2025 onwards.

·         European journal of neurology (Online); European Federation of Neurological Societies, issuing body; (Blackwell Science Ltd) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2024.

·         Headache (Online); American Headache Society, issuing body; (John Wiley & Sons) – available as a Keele e-journal from 1997 onwards, or as an open access journal 2010 onwards.

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT logins to view Keele e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. NHS ejournals will require login with an NHS Open Athens account.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/ 

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ARTICLES

·         “Association of Serum hsCRP and TNFα With Therapeutic Response to Erenumab for Migraine Prevention: A Registry for Migraine (REFORM) Study”; Karlsson, William K; Christensen, Rune H; et al; European journal of neurology, 2026-07, Vol.33 (7), p.e70714-n/a

·         “The implications of losing treatment options: Why lasmiditan's discontinuation matters”; VanderPluym, Juliana H; Headache, 2026-02, Vol.66 (2), p.554-555

·         “Is migraine a spectrum disorder? Questioning the concept of “episodic” and “chronic” migraine using population-based data from 10,226 adults with migraine from 14 countries”; Husøy, Andreas Kattem; Steiner, Timothy J; Journal of headache and pain, 2026-06, Vol.27 (1), p.163

·         “Migraine: advances in treatment”; Ashraf, Usman; Goadsby, Peter J; Trends in molecular medicine, 2026-04, Vol.32 (4), p.385-398

·         “Pharmacological Management of Migraine by Primary Care Providers in Nova Scotia”; O'Brien, Melissa S; Grandy, Mathew; Dawe, Jessica A J; Canadian journal of neurological sciences, 2025-11, p.1

·         “Migraine stigma and general knowledge of migraine: A cross-sectional European survey”; Goadsby, Peter J.; Ruiz de la Torre, Elena; et al; Cephalalgia, 2025-09, Vol.45 (9), Article 03331024251368251

·         “Migraine in men”; Fitzek, Mira P; Boucherie, Deirdre M; de Vries, Tessa; et al; Journal of headache and pain, 2025-01, Vol.26 (1), p.3-15, Article 3

·         “Association between migraine, migraine subtype, and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A systematic review and metaanalysis”; Hansen, Anna Steen; Christiansen, Cecilie Holm; Rom, Ane Lilleøre; et al; Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica, 2025-06, Vol.104 (6), p.1026-1040

·         “Prevalence of adverse childhood experiences in the refractory chronic migraine population compared to nonrefractory chronic and episodic migraine”; Ahmad, Sarah R; Levin, Morris; Headache, 2025-11, Vol.65 (10), p.1800-1810

·         “CGRPTargeted Therapy in Vestibular Migraine—How Strong Is the Evidence?”; Tarnutzer, Alexander Andrea; Castro Abarca, Patricia; et al; European journal of neurology, 2026-07, Vol.33 (7), p.e70688

·         “When does empathy help? Patient-perceived physician empathy and migraine severity”; Skorupa, Natalia; Sobol, Malgorzata; et al; Patient education and counseling, 2026, Vol.151, p.109775

·         “Similarities and differences between migraine and other types of headaches: Migraine mimics”; Unal-Cevik, I.; Arslan, D.; Neurology perspectives, 2023-04, Vol.3 (2), Article100122

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE

·         NHS website:

o   Migraine - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/migraine/

·         Charities / Further information:

o   The Migraine Trust - https://migrainetrust.org/

·         ClinicalKey Patient Education Leaflet [available via ClinicalKey for NHS members with Open Athens log-in]:

o   Long-term (chronic) migraine headache - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_339d9d95-36f6-45fa-b315-efe22426a991

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