63: Moving Migraine Toward Personalized Care

Welcome to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments™ podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in neurology sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Jessica Ailani, MD, director, MedStar Georgetown Headache Center, and associate professor of neurology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. She spoke about some recent data in headache medicine that has provided evidence of the in-clinic experience and how the migraine treatment landscape has shifted, and what challenges need to be addressed to achieve the goal of developing personalized treatment regimens for patients. Episode Breakdown: 1:25 – Migraine highlights from the 2022 AAN Annual Meeting. 5:00 – Atogepant post hoc analyses showing dose-dependent weight loss. 9:25 – Rimegepant data and optimizing available treatments for quality of life. 12:50 – Current day-to-day challenges in migraine care. 15:10 – Neurology News Minute 18:50 – Progress made toward increasing migraine training and education. 22:45 – Other specialty's understanding of the migraine population. 27:35 – The importance of behavioral interventions in migraine. 32:05 – Looking ahead to the future of care. The stories featured in this week's Neurology News Minute, which will give you quick updates on the following developments in neurology, are further detailed here: Axsome Issued CRL for AXS-07 in Acute Migraine Treatment FDA Approves Ravulizumab for Adults With Generalized Myasthenia Gravis FDA Permits Marketing for Plaque-Detecting Diagnostic Test for Alzheimer Disease Thanks for listening to the NeurologyLive® Mind Moments™ podcast. To support the show, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. For more neurology news and expert-driven content, visit neurologylive.com.