Migraine and Other Headache Disorders presents the most current diagnostic and treatment protocols for migraine and other headache conditions.

Features:

• Offers a wide assortment of tools to help neurologists assess migraine patients
• Helps specialists diagnose migraine and prevent the progression of migraine headaches
• Provides an algorithm-based approach to assess headache severity and comorbidity
• Studies the genetics of migraine and other primary headaches
• Addresses the treatment of migraine in children and teens
• Supplies practical care regimens for the management of migraine

Contents

1. Headache - Classification
2. The Epidemiology and Impact of Migraine
3. Progressive Headache: Epidemiology, Natural History, and Risk Factors
4. Comorbidity of Migraine
5. Pain Sensitivity: Intracranial and Extracranial Structures
6. Pathophysiology of Aura
7. Pathophysiology of Migraine
8. Allodynia and Sensitization in Migraine
9. Genetics of Migraine and Other Primary Headaches
10. Identification or Exclusion of Secondary Headaches
11. Differential Diagnosis of Primary Headaches: An Algorithm-Based Approach
12. Diagnostic and Severity Tools for Migraine
13. Migraine Without Aura
14. Migraine with Aura
15. Childhood Periodic Syndromes
16. Retinal, or "Monocular", Migraine. Complications of Migraine
17. Principles of Headache Management
18. Behavioral and Educational Approaches to the Management of Migraine: Clinical and Public Health Applications
19. Non-specific Migraine Acute Treatment
20. Specific Acute Migraine Treatment: Ergotamine and Triptans
21. Preventive Treatment
22. Herbal Medicines and Vitamins
23. Treatment of Migraine in Children and Adolescents
24. Inpatient Management and Invasive Treatment Strategies for Migraine and Chronic Daily Headaches
25. Migraine in the Emergency Department
26. Progression Forms of Migraine
27. The Future of Migraine Therapies
28. Tension-type Headache
29. Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgias
30. Other Primary Headaches
31. When the Treatment of Headache Fails

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