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Headache Education for Medical Students: Wolff's Postulates – Further Communication
Author(s) -
Shevel Elliot
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2009.01366.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , psychology , medicine , computer science
1 The sole object of my letter was to bring to the attention of the readers of Headache the fact that Wolff's hard scientific evidence showing the involvement of the extracranial branches of the external carotid artery in the pain of migraine has been specifically and inexplicably excluded from the curriculum for medical students by the Education Committee and the Executive Committee of the American Headache Society. Harold Wolff was a consummate scientist, who con- ducted a series of rigorous and elegant scientific studies on the extracranial vasculature. 2-8 He and his co-workers showed that vasodilatation of the extracranial arteries is most certainly linked not only to migraine pain but to the timing of migraine pain, a scientific fact which has been confirmed over and over again! 9