| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Head pain anatomy and physiology / Morris Levin -- Pathophysiology and genetics of migraine and cluster headaches / Robert E. Shapiro -- The epidemiology and burden of headache / Marcelo E. Bigal and Richard B. Lipton -- The international classification of headache disorders and classification and diagnosis of migraine / Morris Levin -- Classification and diagnosis of chronic daily headache and tension-type headache / Herbert G. Markley -- Classification and diagnosis of trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias and other primary headaches / Lawrence C. Newman -- Classification and diagnosis of secondary headaches: traumatic and vascular causes / Alan M. Rapoport and Mark J. Rapoport -- Classification and diagnosis of secondary headaches: altered intracranial pressure, neoplasm, and infection / Brian E. McGeeney -- Classification and diagnosis of secondary headaches: substances, metabolic disorders, EENT causes, and neuralgias / Lawrence C. Newman -- Psychiatric comorbidity and causes of headache / Stephen M. Baskin -- Pharmacological treatment of acute migraine / Alan M. Rapoport -- Preventive pharmacological treatment of migraine, and tension-type headache / Stewart J. Tepper -- Pharmacologic treatment of trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias and other primary headaches / Brian E. McGeeney -- Treatment of chronic daily headache / Fred D. Sheftell -- Headache treatment in children, pregnancy and lactation, the elderly, and renal disease / Thomas N. Ward -- Inpatient headache treatment / Thomas N. Ward -- Non-pharmacological headache treatment / Randall E. Weeks -- Procedures for headache / Thomas N. Ward |
| Summary |
Headache Medicine has recently become an official medical subspecialty. Practitioners who specialize in the field come from many different backgrounds including neurology, internal medicine, anesthesiology, rehabilitation medicine, family medicine, psychiatry, dentistry and others. A great deal of research is being done in HM, and, as a result, the field is one which is growing rapidly in every way. Interestingly, most patients with headache are not being treated by specialists in HM, in large part because of the vast numbers of patients requiring medical attention for headache disorders, and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Headache -- Examinations, questions, etc
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Headache Disorders -- diagnosis -- Problems and Exercises
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Headache Disorders -- therapy -- Problems and Exercises
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
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MEDICAL -- Neurology.
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Headache
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| Genre/Form |
exercise books.
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Problems and exercises
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Examinations
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Problems and exercises.
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Problèmes et exercices.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Levin, Morris, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2007036891 |
| ISBN |
9780199710560 |
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0199710562 |
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128186837X |
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9781281868374 |
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9786611868376 |
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6611868372 |
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