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Do you feel your migraine treatment options are limited because you experience numerous side effects to multiple medications? Dr. Lindsay Weitzel talks to Dr. Vince Martin about how to optimize your treatment plan if you are one of these people.

Dr. Vincent Martin and Dr. Lindsay Weitzel discuss Vestibular Migraine in Episode 61 of Heads UP. Do you experience dizziness, vertigo, lightheadedness? You could be experiencing Vestibular Migraine.

It is such an exciting time in headache medicine. In the past two years, we have seen incredible growth in the options available for the treatment of migraine disease and headache disorders. In Episode 60 of Heads UP, Dr. Timothy Smith and Dr. Lindsay Weitzel discuss the newest drug approved by the FDA to treat acute migraine.

In celebration of Clinical Trials Week, Dr. Lindsay Weitzel talks to Dr. Tim Smith about how the current ongoing migraine clinical trials and how they have been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Will we see delays in the approval and release of some of our long-awaited migraine medications?

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Dr. Lindsay Weitzel gets the patient perspective from The Migraine Diva, Jaime Sanders. They discuss coping with the depression and anxiety that can so often accompany chronic migraine.

Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! Resilience is one of the key components to living a successful life with migraine disease and other headache disorders. In honor of this special month, Dr. Lindsay Weitzel and Headache Psychologist Dr. Dawn Buse delve deep into the four ways we can cultivate resilience in our lives. They also address your questions related to the specific challenges this time in history poses for us and how best to overcome them.

Dr. Lindsay Weitzel and Shirley Kessel, Executive Director of Miles for Migraine discuss what it is like being moms with migraine. How do we empower our families who are impacted by migraine disease? How do we empower our children who experience migraine? Let's talk about raising the next generation of advocates.

Dr. Matthew Robbins - Neurology Residency Program Director at Weill Cornell Medicine talks to Dr. Lindsay Weitzel about the ideal changes he hopes to see in headache education. Dr. Weitzel asks when we should seek out a specialist, what to look for, and what to do if our doctors did not benefit from a strong headache education. For more information visit www.headaches.org

What can physical therapy do for our headache disorder? Our second episode with Mark Greco, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Manager of the Diamond Headache Inpatient Program, discusses physical therapy options for those of us with post-concussive headache, NDPH, occipital neuralgia, and even TMD.

Did you know that Resilience is a concept that has been shown to strongly benefit our health? Resilience can be taught and is so important in migraine and chronic pain. It is particularly applicable at this time of a global pandemic and quarantine. Dr. Dawn Buse, psychologist specializing in headache, discusses this concept with Dr. Lindsay Weitzel on this episode of Heads Up.