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Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 8th edition
ISBN
0195326563 / 9780195326567
Description
This text provides a comprehensive overview of headache disorders. The contributors are the acknowledged world leaders in their fields. This seventh edition reflects the enormous growth of knowledge regarding the classification of epidemiology, mechanisms, and treatment of headaches.
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CONTENTS:
The history of migraine from Hippocrates to Harold Wolff -- The last 50 years of headache history: a personal perspective -- Overview of diagnosis and classification -- Headache: epidemiology and impact -- Neuroimaging and other diagnostic testing in headache -- Anatomy and physiology of pain-sensitive cranial structures -- Pathophysiology of headache (S) -- Pathophysiology of aura -- Genetics of primary headache -- Migraine diagnosis and comorbidity -- Migraine treatment -- Tension-type headache -- Chronic daily headache including transformed migraine, chronic tension-type headache, and medication overuse headache -- Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias: diagnosis and management -- Other primary headaches -- Headaches associated with head trauma -- Headaches associated with vascular disorders (D) -- Headache associated with abnormalities in intracranial structure or function: high-cerebrospinal-fluid-pressure headache and brain tumor -- Headache associated with abnormalities in intracranial structure or function: low-cerebrospinal-fluid-pressure headache -- Infectious, toxic, and metabolic headaches -- Cervicogenic headache -- The eye and headache -- Disorders of the mouth and teeth -- Nasal disease and sinus headache -- Cranial neuralgias and other causes of facial pain -- Giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica -- Headaches in children -- Headaches in women -- Headaches in the elderly -- Behavioral management of headache -- Emergency headaches, including thunderclap headache -- Peripheral procedures: nerve blocks, peripheral neurostimulation, and botulinum neurotoxin injections -- Turning treatment failure into treatment success -- Communication in the care of the headache patient.
The history of migraine from Hippocrates to Harold Wolff -- The last 50 years of headache history: a personal perspective -- Overview of diagnosis and classification -- Headache: epidemiology and impact -- Neuroimaging and other diagnostic testing in headache -- Anatomy and physiology of pain-sensitive cranial structures -- Pathophysiology of headache (S) -- Pathophysiology of aura -- Genetics of primary headache -- Migraine diagnosis and comorbidity -- Migraine treatment -- Tension-type headache -- Chronic daily headache including transformed migraine, chronic tension-type headache, and medication overuse headache -- Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias: diagnosis and management -- Other primary headaches -- Headaches associated with head trauma -- Headaches associated with vascular disorders (D) -- Headache associated with abnormalities in intracranial structure or function: high-cerebrospinal-fluid-pressure headache and brain tumor -- Headache associated with abnormalities in intracranial structure or function: low-cerebrospinal-fluid-pressure headache -- Infectious, toxic, and metabolic headaches -- Cervicogenic headache -- The eye and headache -- Disorders of the mouth and teeth -- Nasal disease and sinus headache -- Cranial neuralgias and other causes of facial pain -- Giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica -- Headaches in children -- Headaches in women -- Headaches in the elderly -- Behavioral management of headache -- Emergency headaches, including thunderclap headache -- Peripheral procedures: nerve blocks, peripheral neurostimulation, and botulinum neurotoxin injections -- Turning treatment failure into treatment success -- Communication in the care of the headache patient.