Migraine Science Collaborative

MSC recently had the opportunity to take part in a Vets First Podcast, a podcast series hosted by Levi Sowers and Brandon Rea, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US. Neil Andrews, executive editor of MSC and a science journalist, and the Vets First Podcast hosts take turns interviewing each other about migraine, science communications, and other topics.

Editor's note: Dr. Anne Luebke, PhD, is a researcher and a jointly appointed associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Her lab focuses on auditory and vestibular efferent systems. One of Dr. Luebke's interests is vestibular migraine, which is the focus of this MSC podcast. Here, Dr. Luebke spoke with Heba Hani, RPh/MBA, a pharmacist who specializes in migraine, at the 2023 International Headache Congress in Seoul, South Korea, to discuss her work using preclinical models to investigate vestibular migraine.

Elizabeth Seng, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at Yeshiva University in New York City, US. Seng, who is a clinical psychologist and researcher, broadly focuses her work on behavioral management of pain and headache disorders, particularly migraine. She is interested in the psychosocial factors associated with migraine attack onset, higher attack frequency, and migraine-related disability. She is also interested in improving acute medication adherence. Seng recently co-authored a Lancet Neurology review article discussing the role of lifestyle factors in migraine and how behavioral change interventions can address them. In this MSC podcast, Seng speaks with Kayt Sukel, a freelance science writer based outside of Houston, Texas, to discuss some of those lifestyle factors, including stress, sleep, diet and physical activity, and the best way to implement behavioral change to improve migraine.

Dawn Buse, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who specializes in helping people live well with chronic diseases including migraine, other headache diseases, and chronic pain. She is a clinical professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and an assistant professor in the clinical health psychology doctoral program of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She also conducts research on migraine, pain and stress, among other conditions. In this MSC podcast, Dr. Buse speaks with freelance science writer Fred Schwaller, PhD, to discuss how she began her career as a migraine researcher and clinical psychologist, the use of behavioral therapies for migraine, and some of her most important epidemiological research findings.