Headache [Hardcover]

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. 

Contributor List vii

Series Foreword x

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xii

PART I: PRINCIPLES OF HEADACHE: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HEADACHE DISORDERS

1 The Basics of Headache Classification and Diagnosis 3
Seymour Solomon and Richard B. Lipton

2 Approach to the Patient with Headache 16
Brian M. Grosberg, Benjamin W. Friedman, and Seymour Solomon

3 Secondary Headache Disorders Encountered in Clinical Practice 27
Deborah I. Friedman

PART II: MIGRAINE

4 Diagnosis and Subtypes of Migraine 57
Seymour Solomon and Brian M. Grosberg

5 Epidemiology, Progression, Prognosis, and Comorbidity of Migraine 64
Richard B. Lipton, C. Mark Sollars, and Dawn C. Buse

6 Pathophysiology and Genetics of Migraine 88
Peter J. Goadsby

7 Multidisciplinary Approach to Patienl|