Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain [Hardcover]

The 8th edition ofWolff's Headache and Other Head Painremains the definitive reference text in the field. Our knowledge and understanding of headache and its management have changed significantly in the twenty-first century. A new international headache classification has been adopted; headache pathophysiology and genetics have advanced; and epidemiologic studies have burgeoned. We have greater insights into the diagnosis and treatment of the secondary headaches. New treatments are available for primary headache disorders, including migraine, cluster, and chronic daily headache, and our understanding and knowledge are increasing by means of ongoing trials. The 8th edition encompasses all of this new material, with all chapters updated and many new authors added.

Read, browse, or query the 8th edition ofWolff's Headacheand you will understand why it has been an enduring standard of excellence six decades after its publication as the first comprehensive text in the field of headache. --Seymour Solomon, MD, Director Emeritus, Headache Center, MontefioreMedical Center, Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

FROM REVIEWS OF THE PREVIOUS EDITION:

It stands above others of its kind as one of the most definitive and comprehensive medical textbooks about headache diagnosis and management. --The Journal of Family Practice

Wolff's Headache and Other Head Painhas been the dominant text on headache for nearly half a century. Printing of this sixth edition gives testimony to its long-term success as a leading source of instruction for generations of physicians in effectively dealing with the complex problems of headache management'--Journal of the American Medical Association

Doctors Dalessio and Silberstein, highly-respected clinicians and investigators themselves, have assembled a first-rate author list to cover the field and continue the celebrlCM