Over the past 10-15 years there has been a significant increase in the understanding of migraine and tension headache in children but there is currently no single source of current information for paediatric neurologists and paediatricians. In this book an international team of experts in the headache area addresses that gap and provides an extensive and detailed review of the recent findings in migraine and tension headache as well as headaches caused by underlying neurological disorders. They give an up-to-date assessment of the causes of childhood headache and better definitions and criteria for diagnosis, pointing the way to important future areas of research. This book, with its evidence-based plans of management and guidelines for investigations, will be essential reading for all clinicians treating headache in children.
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Preface; 1. Introduction Ishaq Abu-Arafeh; 2. Pain and headache: physiology, mechanisms and measurement tools in infants and young children Anne White and Ishaq Abu-Arafeh; 3. Epidemiology of recurrent headache in children Matti Sillanpaa and Ishaq Abu-Arafeh; 4. The inheritance of headache and migraine Ishaq Abu-Arafeh; 5. Pathophysiology of migraine Nabih Ramadan and K. M. Welch; 6. Childhood migraine: clinical features, classifications and diagnostic criteria A. David Rothner; 7. Childhood syndromes related to migraine George Russell and Ishaq Abu-Arafeh; 8. Episodic tension headache Jack Gladstein; 9. Chronic daily headache Paul Winner; 10. Specific causes of headache: brain tumours, benign intracranial hypertension, hydrocephalus and epilepsy William Whitehouse; 11. Rare causes of headache Ishaq Abu-Arafeh; 12. Medical and dietary management of headache and migraine Mirja L. Hamalainen; 13. Psychological management of headache and migraine Susanne Osterhaus; 14. Headache clinics for children Mary Callaghan and Ishaq Abu-Arafeh; Index.
