Headache Medicine 2021, 12(1) p-ISSN 2178-7468, e-ISSN 2763-6178
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Headache Medicine
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Editorial
Importance of illustrating art objects (drawing, painting or sculpture)
on the front cover
Marcelo Moraes Valença
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, Juliana Ramos de Andrade
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, Mario Fernando Prieto Peres
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Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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IPq – HCFMUSP, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Years ago, we created a section in
Headache Medicine
entitled NeuroArt
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to value artistic expression
that represented the specialty of the study of diverse headache subtypes. As the current trend is to
put on the front cover a gure representing the specialty or a theme covered in the issue, we have
also used images related to
Headache Medicine
to illustrate our front covers. The front cover of a
book or a scientic journal supports the content and ideas described in the book/period in question.
As a way of praising the work of some artists and their respective work, we have placed some
illustrations shown in previous issues of the journal on the home page of the
Headache Medicine
website (Figure 1).
Figure 1. New layout of
Headache Medicine
website, updated in March, 2021.
Science and art walk together, both seeking a harmonious beauty, establishing some fundamental
rules that must be followed, of course with creativity, in a dynamic progression with innovative ways
of communicating the new, the revolutionary, making a person think and changing the world in
search for greater perfection.
Marcelo Moraes Valença
mmvalenca@yahoo.com.br
Received: March 15, 2021
Accepted: March 20, 2021
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sculpture is part of a graduation photography for the 1949
medical class at the
Faculdade de Medicina do Recife
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(Figura 2).
In the current edition, the illustration was done by Beatriz
Guerra, an 11-year-old girl who took the initiative to ask her
classmates at school about the occurrence of headaches.
We realized with the three images that the idea of evolution
of a migraine attack, with the prodromal period, perhaps
with a certain pallor (an autonomic disturbance), followed
by a visual aura and later the headache, which is in the
frontal region. This is the interpretation of a migraine crisis
visualized by this preadolescent girl. It clearly shows that
migraine is not just an adult problem and that specialists
should guide mothers, fathers, and young children about
headaches and available preventive and acute treatment
forms. Figure 3 shows some of our published front covers,
which have illustrated selected images representing works
of art (e.g., drawing, painting, and sculpture).
Figure 2. The wooden sculpture is part of a
graduation photography for the 1949 med-
ical class at the
Faculdade de Medicina do
Recife
, Brazil.
Foto Beleza
, Recife, took the
photographs. The part of the sculpture used
on the front cover is shown with a frame.
In the third edition of
Headache Medicine
2020, we placed
a painting by an anonymous author, whose title is "After
a triptan, life is more beautiful," representing nature, with
greenery, owers, and a waterfall. The tendency is to bring
illustrations that show the suffering of those who have a
headache attack. However, we can also bring images of
hope with painting, as in the example, which brings us back
to a state of relief, even to know that a given individual is
free from that incapacitating migraine crisis that makes one
stay in bed, in a dark room, without any noise for several
hours of the day.
In the fourth edition of
Headache Medicine
2020, we chose
a representation of a wooden sculpture also by an unknown
author, exquisite, with a high artistic value, showing a doctor
being hugged by children with an attitude of suffering, some
kneeling, humbly begging almost hopelessly for help. Note
that two children are holding their heads with their hands,
suggesting they are having headache episodes. The wooden
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Figure 3. Front covers published in
Headache Medicine
demonstrating artwork. Superior part: drawings by Beatriz Guerra
published in 2021, Larissa Azevedo in 2013, and Sterlin Simons in 2012, respectively. In middle part: paintings by Florentino
Bronzino published in 2014, Monica Fidelis in 2018, and digital arts by several artists in 2020, respectively. Inferior part: sculp-
tures by an unknown author published in 2013, Eulâmpio Silva Neto in 2016, and Vera Moraes Valença in 2018, respectively.
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and headache: the enigmas in the Michelangelo's fres-
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Headache Medicine
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10.48208/HeadacheMed.2011.32
2. Freitas MFL, Nascimento JJC and Valença MM. Anatomy
and art: a necessary union such as that of the body with the
soul.
Headache Medicine
2016;7(1):6-10 Doi:
10.48208/HeadacheMed.2016.2
3. Valença MM and Kowacs F. Migraine-inspired art.
Headache Medicine
2011;2(1):4 Doi: 10.48208/
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