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BACKGROUND: Headache is as old as human history and has been able to report, and the first descriptions were found in Greece and Mesopotamia. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to know the date of the first description of ICHD-3 headaches, with their respective author. METHODS: We searched for articles that addressed the historical aspects of primary and secondary headaches and painful cranial neuropathies. RESULTS: Twenty-seven different headaches were analyzed according to the occurrence of their first description, with the respective author and country of origin. CONCLUSIONS: The knowledge of the first description of ICHD-3 headaches, with their respective author, showed us how and when the different headaches appeared over the years.
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Doenças dos Nervos Cranianos/história , Transtornos da Cefaleia Primários/história , Transtornos da Cefaleia Secundários/história , Cefaleia/história , Neuralgia/história , Doenças dos Nervos Cranianos/classificação , Cefaleia/classificação , Transtornos da Cefaleia Primários/classificação , Transtornos da Cefaleia Secundários/classificação , História do Século XVII , História do Século XIX , História do Século XX , História Antiga , História Medieval , Humanos , Neuralgia/classificaçãoRESUMO
Nitroglycerin (NTG) (glyceryl trinitrate) was synthesized by the Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero in Paris in 1846. A very unstable explosive, Alfred Nobel while working on explosives, combined it with Kiselguhr and patented it as dynamite in 1867. NTG was introduced in 1879 in medicine in the treatment of angina pectoris by the English doctor William Murrell. NTG-induced headache was quickly recognized as an important adverse event both in the industrial use of NTG, where it was used to produce dynamite, as well as in the use of NTG as drug. This review traces the evolution of our understanding of NTG headache.
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Transtornos da Cefaleia Primários/induzido quimicamente , Transtornos da Cefaleia Primários/história , Nitroglicerina/efeitos adversos , Vasodilatadores/efeitos adversos , História do Século XIX , História do Século XX , História do Século XXI , HumanosRESUMO
Over the past two decades, the development of new functional neuroimaging techniques has improved our understanding of the brain events underlying several primary headache disorders. In migraine and cluster headache, the advent of these techniques has shifted the emphasis in pathophysiological research away from the vessel and back to the brain.