Semin Neurol 2009; 29(4): 406-418
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1237113
© Thieme Medical Publishers

Sleep and Headache

K.C. Brennan1 , Andrew Charles1
  • 1Headache Research and Treatment Program, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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Publication Date:
09 September 2009 (online)

ABSTRACT

There is a strong interaction between sleep and headache. Sleep and headache disorders overlap epidemiologically, and share elements of anatomy and physiology. Perhaps as a result, their treatment is often mutually interdependent. Despite this, headache and sleep disorders tend to be treated separately, by different subspecialties of neurology. The headache disorders and their relationship to sleep, the commonalities of headache and sleep pathophysiology, and headache disorders that are particularly susceptible to sleep modulation (and vice versa) are reviewed. Practical management advice for sleep-modulated headaches is provided.

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