Headache

This book is a practical guide to headache medicine designed for both neurologists and general practitioners. Its expert author team introduces the principles of classification and diagnosis, and focuses in detail on the main classes of headache migraine, tension–type and trigeminal autonomic cephalgias, including cluster headache. The book’s clinically focused practical approach covers unusual headache disorders, such as hemicrania continua and new daily persistent headache, and addresses the management of headache in women, children and the elderly. Table of Contents List of Contributors Series Foreword Preface Part 1: Principles of Headache: Primary and Secondary Headache Disorders 1 The Basics of Headache Classification and Diagnosis Seymour Solomon and Richard B. Lipton 2 Approach to the Patient with Headache Brian M. Grosberg, Benjamin W. Friedman and Seymour Solomon 3 Secondary Headache Disorders Encountered in Clinical Practice Deborah I. Friedman Part 2: Migraine 4 Diagnosis and Subtypes of Migraine Seymour Solomon and Brian M. Grosberg 5 Epidemiology, Progression, Prognosis, and Comorbidity of Migraine Richard B. Lipton, C. Mark Sollars and Dawn C. Buse 6 Pathophysiology and Genetics of Migraine Peter J. Goadsby 7 Multidisciplinary Approach to Patients with Migraine Lucille A. Rathier, Dawn C. Buse, Robert A. Nicholson and Frank Andrasik 8 Acute Treatments for Migraine Dagny Holle and Hans–Christoph Diener 9 Preventive Treatments of Migraine William B. Young 10 Managing the Special Problem of Chronic Migraine Marcelo E. Bigal Part 3: Tension–type Headache 11 Diagnosis, Subtypes, Epidemiology, Progression, Prognosis, and Comorbidity of Tension–type Headache Sara C. Crystal, Uri Napchan and Matthew S. Robbins 12 Pathophysiology and Genetics of Tension–type Headache Sait Ashina and Lars Bendtsen 13 Treatment of Tension–type Headache Sara C. Crystal and Katherine A. Henry Part 4: Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgias Including Cluster Headache 14 Diagnosis and Subtypes of Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgias Arne May 15 Epidemiology, Progression, Prognosis, and Comorbidity of Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgias Matthew S. Robbins and Jessica Ailani 16 Pathophysiology and Genetics of Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgias Peter J. Goadsby 17 Treatment of Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgias including Cluster Headache Sarah Vollbracht and Brian M. Grosberg Part 5: Other Headache Disorders 18 New Daily–persistent Headache Matthew S. Robbins 19 Hemicrania Continua Uri Napchan 20 Unusual Short Duration Primary Headaches Sarah Vollbracht and Brian M. Grosberg Part 6: Management of Headache in Specific Patient Populations 21 Management of Headache in Women Elizabeth W. Loder, Dawn C. Buse, Vincent Martin, Luzma Cardona, Dawn A. Marcus 22 Management of Headache in Children Oranee Sanmaneechai and Karen Ballaban–Gil 23 Management of Headache in the Elderly Matthew S. Robbins and Richard B. Lipton