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.
Synopsis
Since the fifth edition of this classic volume was published, a great deal of progress has been made in the study of headache. Much more is known about the mechanisms, neurobiology, and epidemiology of headache. The discovery of serotonin receptors in the brain has led to a new class of drugs for treating headache, and a new international classification of the various types of headache has been published. all this is covered in the sixth edition of Wolff's Headache, for which Donald Dalessio has been joined by Stephen Silberstein as co-editor. New chapters have been written on diagnosis, headache due to abnormal intracranial pressure, and clinical observations. Many of the other chapters have been completely rewritten, and the rest have been thoroughly updated.
Synopsis
This is the classic reference work on headache, recognized as such throughout the world. First published in 1948, it has helped advance the classification, diagnosis, and therapy of headache and other head pain. Completely revised by a new international team of contributors, the Fifth Edition continues to maintain the book's tradition of scholarship while updating it fully. Much is new to this edition, including chapters on the genetics and epidemiology of migraine, the pathophysiology of migraine, and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania. Advances in neuroimaging and other techniques of neurological diagnosis as they relate to headache are thoroughly discussed.
About the Author
Donald J. Dalessio, M.D., F.A.C.P., is Senior Consultant in the Division of Neurology at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation.
Stephen D. Silberstein, M.D., F.A.C.P., is Co-Director of the Comprehensive Headache Center at the Germantown Hospital and Medical Center, and Clinical Professor of Neurology at Temple University School of Medicine.
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