Systematic reviews

Our understanding of migraine attacks in youth is always improving. There are still many questions and unknowns we need to answer. We can explore these questions with a systematic review. This is a type of research study that collects and analyzes evidence on a specific question from previous studies. Researchers follow a structured and transparent process to summarize results from many studies. This provides an unbiased summary of what is currently known, so that we can move forward with the most important unanswered questions in our next studies.

We have currently completed systematic reviews on various topics including:

• Differences in anxiety and depression between youth with and without migraine.
• Safety and efficacy of using onabotulinumtoxinA (BOTOX) in youth with chronic migraine.
• The use of non-invasive neuromodulation devices to treat people with migraine.

We will continue to use systematic reviews understand migraine-related questions, and have several of these in progress.

It is important that we stay informed on the most recent migraine research and evidence. Systematic reviews allow us to summarize current research and better understand the gaps to develop new ideas to improve the lives of children and adolescents living with migraine.