Comprehensive Review Of Headache Medicine

Description:
A broad review of headache pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment, this book is divded into four parts. Part 1 covers head pain physiology and anatomy, headache epidemiology, and current concepts regarding headache pathophysiology. Part 2 is devoted to diagnosis of the primary headache disorders. Part 3 covers the diagnosis of secondary headaches. Part 4 is concerned with treatment of primary headaches including special considerations such as paediatric treatment, surgical treatment and inpatient treatment. Content is presented in a systematic order following an outline at the beginning of the chapter, and a list of suggested reading is available at the end of each chapter. Case Reports and study questions are presented at the end of each chapter.

Table of Contents:
PART 1: HEADACHE MEDICINE BASIC SCIENCE: ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, AND EPIDEMIOLOGY; 1. Head Pain Anatomy and Physiology; 2. Pathophysiology and Genetics of Migraine and Cluster Headache; 3. The Epidemiology and Burden of Headache; PART 2: DIAGNOSIS OF PRIMARY HEADACHE DISORDERS; 4. The International Classification of Headache Disorders and Classification and Diagnosis of Migraine; 5. Classification and Diagnosis of Chronic Daily Headache and Tension-Type Headache; 6. Classification and Diagnosis of Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias and Other Primary Headaches; PART 3 DIAGNOSIS OF SECONDARY HEADACHE DISORDERS; 7. Classification and Diagnosis of Secondary Headaches: Traumatic and Vascular Causes; 8. Classification and Diagnosis of Secondary Headaches: Altered Intracranial Pressure, Neoplasm, and Infection; 9. Classification and Diagnosis of Secondary Headaches: Substances, Metabolic Disorders, EENT Causes, and Neuralgias; 10. Psychiatric Comorbidity and Causes of Headache; PART 4: HEADACHE TREATMENT; 11. Pharmacologic Treatment of Acute Migraine; 12. Preventive Pharmacologic Treatment of Migraine and Tension-Type Headache; 13. Pharmacologic Treatment of Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgias and Other Primary Headaches; 14. Treatment of Chronic Daily Headache; PART 4. TREATMENT OF INTRACTABLE HEADACHE AND SPECIAL POPULATIONS; 15. Headache Treatment in Children, Pregnancy and Lactation, the Elderly, and Renal Disease; 16. Inpatient Headache Treatment; 17. Non-Pharmacologic Headache Treatment; 18. Procedures for Headache