Headache Journal

Members' Choice Award 

Each year, the Headache® Journal Editorial Board invites the members of the American Headache Society to vote for one standout piece published in the journal from the previous year. The nominated articles are selected by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Amy Gelfand, MD, FAHS, and represent the most impactful work published over the previous 12 months.

The selected paper will be announced in the July-August issue of Headache and at the Annual Scientific Meeting. The authors of the winning paper will be notified ahead of time and asked to contribute an editorial discussing their work.

Congratulations to the 2025 recipient!

Prevalence and burden of migraine in the United States: A systematic review
(Fred Cohen MD; Caroline V. Brooks MA; Daniel Sun BS; Dawn C. Buse PhD; Michael L. Reed PhD; Kristina M. Fanning PhD; Richard B. Lipton MD)

Past Recipients

2024

Aura phenomena do not initiate migraine attacks—Findings from neuroimaging
(Jan Mehnert, Laura Fischer-Schulte, Arne May MD, PhD)

2023

The unique role of stigma in migraine-related disability and quality of life
(Elizabeth K. Seng PhD, Robert E. Shapiro MD, PhD, Dawn C. Buse PhD, Matthew S. Robbins MD, Richard B. Lipton MD, Amanda Parker PhD)

2022

Management of primary headaches during pregnancy, postpartum, and breastfeeding: A systematic review
(Ian J. Saldanha MBBS, MPH, PhD, Wangnan Cao PhD, Monika Reddy Bhuma BDS, MPH, Kristin J. Konnyu PhD, Gaelen P. Adam MLIS, MPH, Shivani Mehta BA, Andrew R. Zullo PharmD, PhD, Kenneth K. Chen MD, Julie L. Roth MD, Ethan M. Balk MD, MPH)

2021

Alterations in Brain Function After Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Migraine in Children and Adolescents
(Hadas Nahman-Averbuch PhD, Victor J. Schneider II BSc, Leigh Ann Chamberlin RD, Med, Ashley M. Kroon Van Diest PhD, James L. Peugh PhD, Gregory R. Lee PhD, Rupa Radhakrishnan MD, MS, Andrew D. Hershey MD, PhD, FAHS, Christopher D. King PhD, Robert C. Coghill PhD, Scott W. Powers PhD, ABPP, FAHS)

2020

Eleven Things Not to Say to Your Female Colleagues
(Clarimar Borrero-Mejias; Amaal J. Starling; Rebecca Burch; Elizabeth Loder)

2019

Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: 10 Myths and Misperceptions
(Peter G. Kranz, Linda Gray, Timothy J. Amrhein)

Migraine Progression: A Systematic Review
(Dawn C. Buse, Jacob D. Greisman, Khosrow Baigi and Richard B. Lipton)

2018

Headache in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: Findings From the Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Treatment Trial
(Deborah I Friedman, Peter A. Quiros, Prem S. Subramanian, Luis J. Mejico, Shan Gao, Michael McDermott, Michael Wall)

2017
2016
2015

Trigger Point Injections for Headache Disorders: Expert Consensus Methodology and Narrative Review
(Matthew S. Robbins, Deena Kuruvilla, Andrew Blumenfeld, Larry Charleston IV, Michael Sorrell, Carrie E. Robertson, Brian M. Grosberg, Steven D. Bender, Uri Napchan and Avi Ashkenazi)

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