Media & press
Explaining headache medicine outside the exam room.
Television segments, physician education, and expert commentary on migraine and headache disorders — what triggers attacks, why some headaches persist for years, and how modern treatment has changed.
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Expert Perspectives on the Comprehensive Management of Migraine Headache for Primary Care Providers
An interview recorded for clinicians, covering how migraine is recognized in the primary care setting, when preventive therapy is indicated, how to use the newer CGRP-targeted agents, and which presentations belong with a headache specialist.
Available on Medscape
How high temperatures can lead to headaches
On heat, dehydration, and barometric shifts as migraine triggers — and the practical summer measures that reduce attack frequency.
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What foods to avoid if you get migraines
On dietary triggers, why elimination diets often mislead patients, and what the evidence actually supports around food and migraine.
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Interviews & articles
Meet Dr. Nicholas Tzikas: Yale School of Medicine Clinical Neurology Professor
A long-form conversation on headache medicine as a subspecialty, teaching fellows, and the direction of migraine treatment.
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Excedrin Migraine vs. Excedrin Extra Strength: what actually differs
Expert commentary on over-the-counter analgesics, caffeine-containing combinations, and the point at which frequent use starts to drive headache rather than relieve it.
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Chatting with Dr. Nicholas Tzikas: Clinical Neurology Professor at Yale
On training, the path into headache and facial pain medicine, and the work of a headache fellowship program.
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What causes migraines? A Yale doctor on the less obvious triggers
Commentary on sleep, hormones, weather, and the trigger patterns patients most often misread.
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For journalists & producers
Available for commentary.
Interview requests, background for a story, or on-camera commentary — please write directly rather than through the clinical office, and include your deadline. Clinical questions from patients cannot be answered through media channels.
For shorter inquiries or to follow updates, reach out on Instagram: @drnicholastzikas or @interventionalneuro_nynj.
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Media inquiries →Topics covered
- Migraine as a neurologic disease, not a symptom
- CGRP-targeted prevention and the new acute agents
- OnabotulinumtoxinA for chronic migraine
- CSF pressure disorders, venous outflow, and headaches that never resolve
- Medication-overuse headache and how to unwind it
- Headache in pregnancy and fertility treatment
- Cluster headache, trigeminal and occipital neuralgia