Migraine and Other Primary Headaches, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics

Randolph W. Evans (Author)

9781437705058, Elsevier Health Sciences

Hardback, published 30 June 2009

240 pages
28 x 19 x 2.1 cm, 0.5 kg

This issue of Neurologic Clinics reviews migraine and other primary headaches, one of the most common disorders seen by neurologists and primary care physicians and which affect 90% of the population and are the cause of 90% of all headaches. World-class experts provide cutting-edge chapters on the following topics: the epidemiology, burden and comorbidities of migraine; pathophysiology of migraine; transient neurologic dysfunction in migraine; vestibular migraine; diagnostic testing for migraine and other primary headaches; acute treatment of migraine; preventive migraine treatment; chronic migraine; pediatric migraine; women and migraine; the migraine association with cardiac anomalies, cardiovascular disease and stroke; tension-type headache; trigeminal autonomic cephalgias; and other primary headaches.

Subject Areas: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN]