Eurohead Project: About us

FMPV

IRCCS Neurological Institute "C. Mondino", Pavia, Italy

Prof. Nappi is a former president of the European Headache Federation (EHF9, and he is on the Council of the International Headache Society (IHS), chairman of the IHS Italian Linguistic Subcommittee, Scientific Director of the "C. Mondino" Institute of Neurology in Pavia, chairman of the IHS Classification Subcommittee on Chapter IV ("Other Primary Headaches"), President of the University Center for the Study of Adaptive Disorders and Headache (UCADH), which includes 11 Units, from 9 Italian Universities.
Prof. Nappi is also president of the CIRNA Foundation, an organisation that supports neurological research, and looks after the scientific coordination of a patients' association (Al.Ce. Group), which is recognised by the IHS-affiliated World Headache Alliance (WHA). In recent years, he has also coordinated various scientific projects supported by public bodies (such as the Italian Ministry of Health), such as - for example - the creation of a network of general practitioners as a means of verifying their ability to apply diagnostic-treatment guidelines in the fields of headache and epilepsy. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Functional Neurology, which is creating a platform for the exchanging of opinions among experts in various sectors of functional neurology that will be made fully available for the dissemination activities of the project.

Summary of relevant expertise

The Pavia Headache Center is one of the oldest in the world, as it has a 30-year long experience in the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of headache patients. Since 1989, the Pavia Headache Center has been flanked and integrated by the University Center for the Study of Adaptive Disorders and Headache, which has provided a multidisciplinary academic expertise for the research in the field of headache and pain disorders. Every year, more than 2000 headache patients are visited as out-patients, and almost 300 are hospitalized for the proper treatment of analgesic abuse for headache. At the Neurological Institute C. Mondino, clinical research in the field of headache and pain is fully integrated with basic research. Here clinical trials, human neurophysiological and neuroendocrine investigations coexist with basic experimental studies on animal models of central pain, hyperalgesia and migraine. Several clinical and experimental laboratories active in the field of headache and pain, including Psychophysiology of Pain, Neuroendocrinology, Functional Neurochemistry, and Pathophysiology of Autonomic Integrative Systems.