Migraine and Headache

@BertVargas

Associate Professor of Neurology

Director, Sports Neurology and Concussion Program

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, Texas

Bert B. Vargas, MD, FAHS, FAAN

MIGRAINE

Migraine affects 1 in 4 households and over 36 million people in the United States alone. It is the #1 cause of neurologic disability and the #10 cause of all disability in the US with direct and indirect costs in excess of over $31 billion every year.

Despite these staggering numbers, many continue to minimize migraine and "just a headache" and fail to legitimize migraine is a neurologic disease with a significant quality of life and socioeconomic impact. Headache research is also grossly underfunded making up less than 0.08% of the NIH research budget.