Description
Migraine Biology, Diagnosis, and Co-Morbidities, Volume 195 covers a wide range of issues related to migraine. The epidemiology, global and personal impacts of migraine are covered, including topics on the pathophysiology of migraine and migraine aura, the pathophysiology of the associated symptoms of photophobia and phonophobia, and the genetics of migraine. The classification and diagnostic criteria of common and uncommon subtypes of migraine are also explored in detail, including childhood variants. Issues related to the diagnosis and management of vestibular migraine and the co-morbid disorder of persistent postural-perceptual dizziness are also covered.
The important comorbidities of migraine such as anxiety, depression and other forms of chronic pain will also be discussed, along with the current state and future directions of migraine research and management.
- Summarizes research and clinical information on the pathophysiology of migraines
- Explores the pathophysiology of aura, photophobia, and phonophobia
- Discusses migraine triggers
- Reviews migraine subtypes and comorbid conditions in migraine
- Explores the relationship of migraine to chronic pain and cerebrovascular and psychological conditions
- Concludes with future directions in migraine research and treatment
Table of Contents
Section I. Migraine: The Human and Societal Impact
1. History of migraine
2. Societal and personal impact of migraine
3. Epidemiology of migraine
Section II. Biology of Migraine
4. The anatomy of head pain
5. Migraine headache pathophysiology
6. Pathophysiology of migraine aura
7. Genetics of Migraine: delineation of contemporary understanding of the genetic underpinning of migraine
8. What imaging has revealed about migraine and chronic migraine
9. What has neurophysiology revealed about migraine and chronic migraine
10. Migraine prodromes and migraine triggers
Section III. Migraine Diagnosis
11. Migraine without aura
12. Migraine with aura
13. Chronic migraine and medication overuse
Section IV. Episodic Syndromes That May Be Associated with Migraine
14. Infantile colic
15. Abdominal migraine and cyclical vomiting syndrome
16. Alternating hemiplegia of childhood
17. Benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood
18. Benign paroxysmal torticollis
