Dear Bettina,

I am sure you have done a literature search already, and might be in contact already with some of the following groups. I’d suggest that you contact these directly:

In children:

J. Bickel. Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO

B. Peterlin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

l.Vallée, Lille Faculty of Medicine and Children's Hospital, Lille, France.

In adults:

K. Ozeki, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

R Wing, D Bond, O’Leary, Brown Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI

K. Hirata, Dokkyo Medical University, Japan.

U. Reuter, Charité Hospital, Berlin Germany

J. Hoffmann, Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany,

P. Martus Tubingen Clinic, Germany

Chai C, Peterlin B. School of Medicine - Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

In Germany, the Dep. Neurology of the Charité would certainly be a major point to contact and ask for further recommendations. They might have etsablished a network already……

Good luck

SR

Tim Houle at Wake Forest

The headaches are consequent to the intra-ocular pressure, which are consequent to the caffeine and excessive water drank by the patient. The barometric variations influence the kind and volumes of the drinks. It is all explained in my E-book " Fluids Hypertension Syndromes".

Headaches and barometric variations -- read my book "Adaptive Mechansims in Migraine", Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2009, and my article "Migrainous scintillating scotoma and headache is ocular in origin: A new Hypothesis"--Medical Hypotheses 2006, 66, 454-460.  

Good Luck, 

VKG