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Allais (Turin) Piero Barbanti (Rome) Vincenzo Bonavita (Naples) Gennaro Bussone (Milan) Bruno Colombo (Milan) Domenico D’Amico (Milan) Giovanni D’Andrea (Padua) Fabio Frediani (Milan) Licia Grazzi (Milan) Davide Zarcone (Gallarate, VA) ORGANIZING SECRETARIAT EVA Communication S.r.l. www.evacommunication.it PRESS OFFICE Cesare Peccarisi (Milan) [email protected] Neurological Sciences Volume 38 · Supplement 1 · May 2017 Continuation of table of contents Shared mechanisms of epilepsy, migraine and KEY LECTURE affective disorders Understanding migraine as a cycling brain syndrome: D. Zarcone · S. Corbetta S73 reviewing the evidence from functional imaging Headache and endovascular procedures A. May S125 S. de Biase · M. Longoni · G. Luigi Gigli · E. Agostoni S77 SYMPOSIUM TREATMENT PERSPECTIVES CLINICAL ASPECTS OF HEADACHE FOR ONABOTULINUM TOXINA Neurobiology of chronicization Action mechanisms of Onabotulinum toxin-A: G.C. Manzoni · M. Russo · A. Taga · P. Torelli S81 hints for selection of eligible patients C. Lovati · L. Giani S131 Treating migraine with contraceptives G. Allais · G. Chiarle · S. Sinigaglia · G. Airola · P. Schiapparelli · Onabotulinumtoxin A for chronic migraine F. Bergandi · C. Benedetto S85 with medication overuse: clinical results of a long-term treatment Chiari malformation type 1-related headache: L. Grazzi S141 the importance of a multidisciplinary study M. Curone · L.G. Valentini · I. Vetrano · E. Beretta · M. Furlanetto · L. Chiapparini · A. Erbetta · G. Bussone S91 NEWS ON THE TREATMENT OF PRIMARY HEADACHES New treatments for headache Chiari malformation-related headache: outcome after K. Maasumi · S.J. Tepper · A.M. Rapoport S145 surgical treatment E. Beretta · I.G. Vetrano · M. Curone · L. Chiapparini · Behavioral therapy: emotion and pain, a common M. Furlanetto