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Overview

Richard B. Lipton is affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medical and neurological studies, with a significant concentration on migraine and headache disorders.

They have published extensively in the field of medicine, contributing to over a thousand publications, particularly within psychiatry and mental health, pathology and forensic medicine, neurology, physiology, and sensory systems. Their work covers a range of topics, including migraine and headache studies, trigeminal neuralgia and treatments, dementia and cognitive impairment research, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, sympathectomy and hyperhidrosis treatments, olfactory and sensory function studies, and ophthalmology and eye disorders.

Frequent co-authors include Dawn C. Buse, Mindy J. Katz, David W. Dodick, Ali Ezzati, and Robert Croop.

Their research has been published in various notable venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Neurology
  • Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Cephalalgia
  • The Journal of Headache and Pain

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard B. Lipton include:

  • Efficacy and safety of eptinezumab in patients with chronic migraine, 2020, Neurology
  • Migraine: epidemiology and systems of care, 2021, The Lancet
  • Oral rimegepant for preventive treatment of migraine: a phase 2/3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 2020, The Lancet
  • Atogepant for the Preventive Treatment of Migraine, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Comorbid and co-occurring conditions in migraine and associated risk of increasing headache pain intensity and headache frequency: results of the migraine in America symptoms and treatment (MAST) study, 2020, The Journal of Headache and Pain

Best Publications

  • Heart disease and stroke statistics—2014 update: a report from the American Heart Association

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  • The international classification of headache disorders, (beta version)

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  • Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

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  • The Global Burden of Headache: A Documentation of Headache Prevalence and Disability Worldwide:

    L. J. Stovner;K. Hagen;R. Jensen;Z. Katsarava

  • Prevalence and Burden of Migraine in the United States: Data From the American Migraine Study II

    Richard B. Lipton;Walter F. Stewart;Seymour Diamond;Merle L. Diamond

  • Migraine prevalence, disease burden, and the need for preventive therapy

    R. B. Lipton;M. E. Bigal;M. Diamond;F. Freitag

  • Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly

    Joe Verghese;Richard B. Lipton;Mindy J. Katz;Charles B. Hall

  • Migraine--current understanding and treatment.

    Peter J. Goadsby;Richard B. Lipton;Michel D. Ferrari

  • Prevalence of migraine headache in the United States. Relation to age, income, race, and other sociodemographic factors.

    Walter F. Stewart;Richard B. Lipton;David D. Celentano;Michael L. Reed

  • Lost Productive Time and Cost Due to Common Pain Conditions in the US Workforce

    Walter F. Stewart;Judith A. Ricci;Elsbeth Chee;David Morganstein

  • Bevformer: learning bird's-eye-view representation from lidar-camera via spatiotemporal transformers

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  • Development and testing of the Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) Questionnaire to assess headache-related disability

    Walter F. Stewart;Richard B. Lipton;Andrew J. Dowson;James Sawyer

  • Oral triptans (serotonin 5-HT1B/1D agonists) in acute migraine treatment: a meta-analysis of 53 trials

    Michel D Ferrari;Krista I Roon;Richard B Lipton;Peter J Goadsby

  • Burden of migraine in the United States: disability and economic costs.

    X. Henry Hu;Leona E. Markson;Richard B. Lipton;Walter F. Stewart

  • OnabotulinumtoxinA for treatment of chronic migraine: Results from the double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled phase of the PREEMPT 2 trial

    HC Diener;DW Dodick;SK Aurora;CC Turkel

  • OnabotulinumtoxinA for treatment of chronic migraine: results from the double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled phase of the PREEMPT 1 trial

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  • Quantitative Gait Markers and Incident Fall Risk in Older Adults

    Joe Verghese;Roee Holtzer;Roee Holtzer;Richard B. Lipton;Christopher Wang

  • New Appendix Criteria Open for a Broader Concept of Chronic Migraine

    J. Olesen;M -G Bousser;H -C Diener;D. Dodick

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • OnabotulinumtoxinA for Treatment of Chronic Migraine: Pooled Results From the Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Phases of the PREEMPT Clinical Program

    David W. Dodick;Catherine C. Turkel;Ronald E. Degryse;Sheena K. Aurora

  • Epidemiology of Tension-Type Headache

    Brian S. Schwartz;Walter F. Stewart;David Simon;Richard B. Lipton

  • A review of paroxysmal hemicranias, SUNCT syndrome and other short-lasting headaches with autonomic feature, including new cases.

    Peter J. Goadsby;Richard B. Lipton

  • Migraine and cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Markus Schürks;Pamela M Rist;Marcelo E Bigal;Marcelo E Bigal;Julie E Buring

  • Acute migraine medications and evolution from episodic to chronic migraine: a longitudinal population-based study

    Marcelo E. Bigal;Daniel Serrano;Dawn Buse;Ann Scher

Frequent Co-Authors

Mindy J. Katz
Mindy J. Katz Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Marcelo E. Bigal
Marcelo E. Bigal Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Stephen D. Silberstein
Stephen D. Silberstein Thomas Jefferson University
David W. Dodick
David W. Dodick Mayo Clinic
Walter F. Stewart
Walter F. Stewart Sutter Health
Peter J. Goadsby
Peter J. Goadsby King's College London
Molly E. Zimmerman
Molly E. Zimmerman Fordham University
Charles B. Hall
Charles B. Hall Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Martin J. Sliwinski
Martin J. Sliwinski Pennsylvania State University
Joe Verghese
Joe Verghese Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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