Synopses & Reviews
Headaches represent one of the most common medical conditions and one of the most frequent reasons for patients seeking medical care. Wolff's Headache has become a classic in the field of head pain. Providing a compendium of facts, it stands above other texts as one of the most definitive and comprehensive textbooks on diagnosis and management. Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain 7E provides a comprehensive overview of headache disorders. The contributors are the acknowledged world leaders in their fields. The new edition reflects the enormous growth of knowledge regarding the classification of epidemiology, mechanisms, and treatment of headaches. The book provides both practical clinical advice and a clear overview of the science which provides the foundation for that advice.
Review
"Read, browse, or query the 8th edition of Wolff's Headache and 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, Montefiore Medical Center, Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
FROM REVIEWS OF THE PREVIOUS
Synopsis
The 8th edition of Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain remains 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.
Synopsis
The 8th edition of Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain remains 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.
Table of Contents
Foreword, Robert B. Daroff
Preface, Stephen D. Silberstein, Richard B. Lipton, and Donald J. Dalessio
I. Introduction
1. Remembrances of Dr. Harold Wolff February 21, 1962-May 26, 1989, Donald J. Dalessio
2. Overview, Diagnosis, and Classification of Headache, Stephen D. Silberstein, Richard B. Lipton, and Donald J. Dalessio
3. Neuroimaging and Other Diagnostic Testing in Headache, Randolph W. Evans, Todd D. Rozen, and James U. Adelman
4. Pain-Sensitive Cranial Structures: Chemical Anatomy, Michael F. Cutrer, Michael A Moskowitz
5. The Pathophysiology of Headache, Peter J. Goadsby
6. The Genetics of Headache, Michel D. Ferrari and Joost Haan
7. Epidemiology and Impact of Headache, Richard B. Lipton and Walter Stewart
8. Migraine Comorbidity, Aaron L. Shechter, Richard B. Lipton, and Stephen D. Silberstein
II. Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Headache Disorders
9. Migraine: Diagnosis and Treatment, Stephen D. Silberstein, Joel R. Saper, and Fred G. Freitag
10. Episodic Tension-Type Headaches, Seymour Solomon and Lawrence C. Newman
11. Chronic Daily Headache Including Transformed Migraine, Chronic Tension-Type Headache, and Medication Overuse, Stephen D. Silberstein and Richard B. Lipton
12. Cluster Headache: Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment, David W. Dodick and J. Keith Campbell
13. Unusual Primary Headache Disorders: CPH, SUNCT, and Hypnic Headache, Lawrence C. Newman and Peter J. Goadsby
III. Diagnosis and Treatment of Secondary Headache Disorders
14. Headaches Associated with Head Trauma, William B. Young, Russell C. Packard, and Nabih Ramadan
15. Headache Associated with Vascular Disorders, Steven J. Kittner and Marie Germaine Bousser
16. Headache Associated with Abnormalities in Intracranial Structure or Function: High Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Headache and Brain Tumor, Michael Wall, Stephen D. Silberstein and Robert D. Aiken
17. Headache Associated with Abnormalities in Intracranial Structure or Function: Low Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Headache, Bahram Mokri
18. Infectious, Toxic, and Metabolic Headache, Lawrence C. Newman and Seymour Solomon
19. Disorders of the Neck: Cervicogenic Headache, John Edmeads
20. Disorders of the Eye, James J. Corbett and Timothy J. Martin
21. Disorders of the Mouth and Teeth, Steven B. Graff-Radford
22. Nasal Disease and Sinue Headache, Stephen D. Silberstein and Thomas O. Willcox
23. The Cranial Neuralgias, Postinfectious Neuritis, and Atypical Facial Pain, Todd D. Rozen, David Capobianco, and Donald J. Dalessio
24. Giant Cell Arteritis and Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Richard J. Caselli and Gene G. Hunder
IV. Special Topics
25. Headache in Children, David Rothner and Paul Winner
26. Behavioral Management of Headache, Kenneth A. Holroyd, Donald B. Penzien and Gay L. Lipchik
27. Communicating with the Patient, Valerie South and Fred Sheftell