Award-winning Articles

The Harold G. Wolff Lecture Award is granted annually by the American Headache Society for the best paper on headache, head or face pain and the nature of pain itself. The recipient is invited to present the paper at the Society’s annual meeting, which is then subsequently published in Headache. For more information on the Wolff Award please visit www.ahsnet.org.

 

Wolff Award Winners

 

2007

Brainstem Dysfunction in Chronic Migraine as Evidenced by Neurophysiological and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Studies

Sheena K. Aurora, MD (United States)

Volume 47, Issue 7

 

2006

Serotonin in Trigeminal Ganglia of Female Rodents: Relevance to Menstrual Migraine

Nancy E.J. Berman, PhD (United States)

Volume 46, Issue 8

 

2005

Terminating Migraine With Allodynia and Ongoing Central Sensitization Using Parenteral Administration of COX1/COX2 Inhibitors

Moshe Jakubowski, Dan Levy, Itay Goor-Aryeh, Beth Collins, Zahid Bajwa, Rami Burstein

Volume 45 Issue 7 Page 850 - July 2005

 

2004

Posterior Hypothalamic and Brainstem Activation in Hemicrania Continua

Manjit S. Matharu, Anna S. Cohen, David J. McGonigle, Nick Ward, Richard S. Frackowiak, Peter J. Goadsby

Volume 44 Issue 8 Page 747 - September 2004

 

2003

Possible Parasympathetic Contributions to Peripheral and Central Sensitization During Migraine

David Yarnitsky, Itay Goor-Aryeh, Zahid H. Bajwa, Bernard I. Ransil, F. Michael Cutrer, Anna Sottile, Rami Burstein

Volume 43 Issue 7 Page 704 - July 2003

 

2002

5-HT2A Receptor Activation and Nitric Oxide Synthesis: A Possible Mechanism Determining Migraine Attacks

Anan Srikiatkhachorn, Chalalai Suwattanasophon, Unchalee Ruangpattanatawee, Pansiri Phansuwan-Pujito

Volume 42 Issue 7 Page 566 - July 2002

 

2001

Periaqueductal Gray Matter Dysfunction in Migraine: Cause or the Burden of Illness?

K.M.A. Welch, Vijaya Nagesh, Sheena K. Aurora, Neil Gelman

Volume 41 Issue 7 Page 629 - July/August 2001

 

2000

Sumatriptan for the Range of Headaches in Migraine Sufferers: Results of the Spectrum Study

Richard B. Lipton, Walter F. Stewart, Roger Cady, Charles Hall, Stephen O'Quinn, Timothy Kuhn, Donna Gutterman

November/December 2000 - Vol. 40 Issue 10 Page 783-873