Childhood headache

✍ Scribed by Abu-Arafeh, Ishaq

• Publisher: Mac Keith Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Series: Clinics in developmental medicine.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. History of headache in childhood: from headache tablets to headache tablets 3. Pathophysiology of migraine and other headaches 4. Heredity and genetics of headache and migraine 5. Classification of headache 6. Epidemiology of headache and migraine 7. Impact of headache on quality of life 8. Assessment of childhood headache 9. Investigation of the child with chronic headache: the red flags 10. Childhood migraine: clinical features 11. Management of acute attacks of migraine 12. Preventative treatment for migraine and other headache disorders 13. Potential drugs for the treatment of migraine in children 14. Headache and comorbidity in children: stroke, patent foramen ovale and epilepsy 15. Cyclical vomiting syndrome 16. Abdominal migraine 17. Benign paroxysmal vertigo and benign paroxysmal torticollis 18. Tension-type headache 19. Cluster headache and other trigeminal autonomic cephalagias 20. Chronic daily headache in children and adolescents 21. New daily persistent headache in children 22. Headache, brain tumour and hydrocephalus 23. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension 24. Craniofacial pain: headache attributed to diseases of the paranasal sinuses, the eyes, the teeth and the jaws 25. Chronic post-traumatic headache 26. Psychological aspects of childhood headache 27. Psychological treatment of headache in children and adolescents 28. Dietary management of headache and migraine 29. Management of the child with headache in general practice 30. Specialist clinics for the child with headache 31. Drawing as an expression of migraine symptoms in children: can a picture really paint a thousand words?

✦ Subjects

Headache in children