Migraine (Neurological Disease and Therapy)

✍ Scribed by Lane Russell, Paul Davies

• Publisher: Informa Healthcare
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 370
• Series: Neurological Disease and Therapy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Supported by an extensive review of migraine pathogenesis and more than 200 case histories gleaned from the authors' personal experiences, this guide proposes two radical new concepts: all primary headaches are fundamentally a form of migraine and everyone may experience some manifestation of the migraine process in their life. Offering an in-depth overview of the migraine mechanism, including discussions of the neurogenic, vascular, platelet, and serotonin related components of the process, this source supplies extensive illustrations of the neuroanatomical structures involved in migraine and the latest insights from functional neuroimaging using BOLD fMRI and PET.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Dedication......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Contents......Page 20
Landmarks in Migraine......Page 24
1. A Brief History of Migraine......Page 28
2. The Migraine Mechanism......Page 68
3. Aura......Page 118
4. Complications......Page 164
5. Variants......Page 226
6. Conceptualizing Primary Headache......Page 286
7. Management of Migraine......Page 306
Appendices......Page 352
Index......Page 360