Morris Levin, MD
Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine
Dr. Levin directs the UCSF Headache Center and is interested in all areas of head and facial pain, as well as general pain disorders. He is board certified in Neurology, Pain Medicine and Headache Medicine. He is the author of "Comprehensive Review of Headache Medicine" (Oxford University Press 2008), "Headache and Facial Pain" (Oxford University Press 2009), and "Emergency Neurology" (Oxford University Press 2013).
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His clinical research areas include classification and diagnosis in headache, nerve blocks in head and facial pain conditions, and non-pharmacological approaches to chronic headaches.
Publications (45)
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A placebo controlled, randomized clinical trial of galcanezumab for vestibular migraine: The INVESTMENT study.
Headache 2024 Sharon JD, Krauter R, Chae R, Gardi A, Hum M, Allen I, Levin M -
Classification and Diagnosis of Primary Headache Disorders.
Seminars in neurology 2022 Levin M -
Practical Professional Ethics in Headache Medicine.
Headache 2020 Levin M -
Retrospective Chart Review of Intravenous Valproate Sodium as a Preventive Treatment for Patients With Chronic Migraine.
Headache 2020 Riggins N, Ehrlich A, Sawhney H, Dapkus L, Levin M -
Basic Considerations for the Use of Monoclonal Antibodies in Migraine.
Headache 2018 Levin M, Silberstein SD, Gilbert R, Lucas S, Munsie L, Garrelts A, Kennedy K, Everman N, Pearlman E
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Vagus Nerve Stimulation for the Acute Treatment of Cluster Headache.
Headache 2016 Levin M -
Injection Therapy for Headache and Facial Pain.
Oral and maxillofacial surgery clinics of North America 2016 Kleen JK, Levin M -
Milestones in Fellowship Training in Headache Medicine.
Headache 2016 Levin M -
Approach to the Workup and Management of Headache in the Emergency Department and Inpatient Settings.
Seminars in neurology 2015 Levin M -
Long-acting opioids and headache: a response.
Headache 2014 Levin M -
Opioids in headache.
Headache 2014 Levin M -
Teaching case: hypertensiveheadache.
Headache 2013 Levin M -
Resident and fellow section. Teaching case: dialysis headache.
Headache 2012 Levin M -
Herbal treatment of headache.
Headache 2012 Levin M -
Expert commentary. Teaching case: Cowden syndrome and headache.
Headache 2012 Levin M -
Expert commentary. Teaching case: severe headache in a leukemic.
Headache 2012 Levin M -
Resident and fellow section. Teaching case: symptomatic SUNCT.
Headache 2011 Cascella C, Rosen JB, Robbins MS, Levin M -
Pharmacological prevention of migraine.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2011 Fenstermacher N, Levin M, Ward T -
Commentary from the Refractory Headache Special Interest Section on defining the pharmacologically intractable headache for clinical trials and clinical practice.
Headache 2010 Schulman EA, Lipton R, Peterlin BL, Levin M, Grosberg BM -
Resident and fellow section. Publication ethics--handling two common conundrums facing authors and reviewers.
Headache 2010 Levin M -
Nerve blocks in the treatment of headache.
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 2010 Levin M -
Resident and fellow section.
Headache 2010 Levin M -
OnabotulinumtoxinA for treatment of chronic migraine: results from the double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled phase of the PREEMPT 1 trial.
Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache 2010 Aurora SK, Dodick DW, Turkel CC, DeGryse RE, Silberstein SD, Lipton RB, Diener HC, Brin MF, PREEMPT 1 Chronic Migraine Study Group -
Defining refractory migraine: results of the RHSIS Survey of American Headache Society members.
Headache 2009 Schulman EA, Peterlin BL, Lake AE, Lipton RB, Hanlon A, Siegel S, Levin M, Goadsby PJ, Markley HG -
Teaching case: Chiari type I/ cerebellar ectopia headaches: complete resolution following posterior fossa decompressive surgery.
Headache 2008 Levin M -
Refractory headache: classification and nomenclature.
Headache 2008 Levin M -
Teaching case--headache in the emergency room: a review.
Headache 2008 Levin M -
Making a headache practice work: the elements of diagnosis and coding headache medicine.
Headache 2008 Levin M -
An analysis of cluster headache information provided on internet websites.
Headache 2007 Peterlin BL, Gambini-Suarez E, Lidicker J, Levin M -
Greater occipital nerve block for migraine and other headaches: is it useful?
Current pain and headache reports 2007 Ashkenazi A, Levin M -
Cluster headache treatment dilemmas: the experts respond.
Current pain and headache reports 2007 Loder E, Rizzoli P, McGeeney B, Ward T, Levin M, Shapiro RE, Tepper S, Newman L, Sheftell F, Rapoport A, Markley H -
Cluster headache: a review of online resources for patients and clinicians.
Current pain and headache reports 2007 Peterlin BL, Gambini-Suárez E, Levin M -
Teaching case: Cervicogenic headache.
Headache 2007 Levin M -
A retrospective, comparative study on the frequency of abuse in migraine and chronic daily headache.
Headache 2007 Peterlin BL, Ward T, Lidicker J, Levin M -
Horton's disease: past and present.
Current pain and headache reports 2005 Levin M, Ward TN -
Headache Caused by Giant Cell Arteritis.
Current treatment options in neurology 2004 Ward TN, Levin M, Wong RL -
Changing the face of pain management. Mechanism-based treatment most likely to succeed.
Postgraduate medicine 2004 Levin M -
Three common neuralgias. How to manage trigeminal, occipital, and postherpetic pain.
Postgraduate medicine 2004 Ashkenazi A, Levin M -
Ophthalmoplegic migraine.
Current pain and headache reports 2004 Levin M, Ward TN -
Diagnosis and pathophysiology of migraine.
Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2004 Ward TN, Levin M -
Chronic daily headache and the revised international headache society classification.
Current pain and headache reports 2004 Levin M -
Biosorption of Baftkar textile effluent.
Indian journal of experimental biology 2003 Assadi MM, Mazaheri M, Satari TN, Noohi A, Shahamat M, Levin M -
Laughing headache: a novel type of triggered headache with response to divalproex sodium.
Headache 2003 Levin M, Ward TN -
The many causes of headache. Migraine, vascular, drug-induced, and more.
Postgraduate medicine 2002 Levin M -
The acute severe headache--assessment and treatment.
Comprehensive therapy 2002 Levin M