Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain / Edition 8

by Stephen D. Silberstein, Richard B. Lipton, David W. Dodick

Overview

The 8th edition of Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain remains the definitive reference text in the field. Our knowledge and understanding of headache and its management have changed significantly in the twenty-first century. A new international headache classification has been adopted; headache pathophysiology and genetics have advanced; and epidemiologic studies have burgeoned. We have greater insights into the diagnosis and treatment of the secondary headaches. New treatments are available for primary headache disorders, including migraine, cluster, and chronic daily headache, and our understanding and knowledge are increasing by means of ongoing trials. The 8th edition encompasses all of this new material, with all chapters updated and many new authors added.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195326567
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/18/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	864
Product dimensions:	7.34(w) x 10.08(h) x 1.51(d)

About the Author

Edited by STEPHEN D. SILBERSTEIN, Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, Philadelphia; RICHARD B. LIPTON, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; and DONALD J. DALESSIO, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla

Table of Contents

Preface to the Eighth EditionForward by Robert B. DaroffI: General Considerations: Classification, Epidemiology and Mechanism1. The History of Migraine from Hippocrates to Wolff, Christopher J. Boes and Donald J. Dalessio2. The Last Fifty Years of Headache History: A Personal Perspective, James W. Lance3. Overview, Diagnosis, and Classification of Headache, Richard B. Lipton, Stephen D. Silberstein, and David W. Dodick4. Headache: Epidemiology and Impact, Richard B. Lipton, Marcelo Bigal, Ann Scher and Walter F. Stewart5. Neuroimaging and Other Diagnostic Testing, Randolph W. Evans, Todd D. Rozen and Laszlo Mechter6. Anatomy and Physiology of Pain-Sensitive Cranial Structures, Karl Messlinger, Andrew M. Strassman and Rami Burstein7. Pathophysiology of Headache, Peter J. Goadsby and Michael L. Oshinsky8. Pathophysiology of Aura, Katharina Eikermann-Haerter and Michael A. Moskowitz9. Genetics of Primary Headache, Michel D. Ferrari and Martin DichgansII: Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Headache Disorders and their Complications10. Migraine Diagnosis and Comorbidity, Richard B. Lipton, Ann I. Scher, Stephen D. Silberstein, Marcelo E. Bigal11. Migraine Treatment, Stephen D. Silberstein, Frederick G. Freitag and Marcelo E. Bigal12. Tension-Type Headaches: Diagnosis, Comorbidity and Treatment, Marc E. Lenaerts and Lawrence C. Newman13. Chronic Daily Headache, Including Chronic Migraine Medication Overuse, Stephen D. Silberstein, Richard B. Lipton, and Joel R. Saper14. Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias: Diagnosis and Management (D), Manjit S. Matharu and Peter J. Goadsby15. Other Primary Headache Disorders, Lawrence C. Newman, Brian M. Grosberg and David W. DodickIII: Diagnosis and Treatment of Secondary Headache Disorders16. Headaches Associated with Head Trauma, William B. Young, Russell C. Packard, and Zaza Katsarava17. Headaches Associated with Vascular Disorders (D), Hans-Christoph Diener and David W.Dodick18. Headache Associated with Abnormalities in Intracranial Structure or Function: High Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Headache and Brain Tumor, Deborah I. Friedman, Michael Wall and Stephen D. Silberstein19. Headache Associated with Abnormalities in Intracranial Structure or Function: Low Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Headache, Bahram Mokri and Wouter I. Schievink20. Infectious, Toxic, and Metabolic Headaches, Jonathan P. Gladstone and Marcelo E. Bigal21. Cervicogenic Headache, Nikolai Bogduk and Thorsten Bartsch22. The Eye and Headache, James J. Corbett and Paul W. Brazis23. Disorders of the Mouth and Teeth, Steven B. Graff-Radford and Alan C. Newman24. Nasal Disease and Sinus Headache, Stephen D. Silberstein, David W. Dodick and Thomas O. Willcox25. Cranial Neuralgias and Other Causes of Facial Pain, Todd D. Rozen and David W. Capobianco26. Giant Cell Arteritis, Todd J. Schwedt, Gene C. Hunder and David W. DodickIV: Special Topics27. Headaches in Children and Adolescents, Paul Winner, Andrew D. Hershey and Zhicheng Li28. Headaches in Women, Elizabeth Loder and Stephen D. Silberstein29. Headaches in the Elderly, Jerry W. Swanson, David J. Capobianco, Stefan Evers30. Behavioral Management of Headaches, Kenneth A. Holroyd, Donald B. Penzien and Dawn C. Buse31. Thunderclap and Other Headache Emergencies, David L. Dodick, Eelco Wijdicks, and Anne Ducros32. Peripheral Procedures: Nerve Blocks, Peripheral Neurostimulation, and Botulinum Neurotoxin Injections, Avi Ashkenazi, Morris Levin and David W. Dodick33. Turning Treatment Failure into Treatment Success, Richard B. Lipton, Joel R. Saper, and Stephen D. Silberstein34. Communicating with the Patient, Steven R. HahnIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Read, browse, or query the 8th edition of Wolff's Headache and you will understand why it has been an enduring standard of excellence six decades after its publication as the first comprehensive text in the field of headache."—Seymour Solomon, MD, Director Emeritus, Headache Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

"...a must for all those professing an interest in headache and worth dipping into by all neurologists seeing headache patients (i.e. all neurologists)."—Advances in Clinical Neuroscience & Rehabilitation

From the Publisher

4 Stars! from Doody

Wolff's Headache provides numerous useful clinical details, and this edition notably increases information about the rapidly expanding pharmacology of migraine therapy. The overview section begins with an amazing chapter, which includes "Headache Games," 10 insightful and, at times, entertaining, recognizable patient scenarios. Such a collection of patient stories should be assembled for many chronic illnesses, because experienced clinicians' solutions could help all physicians better understand the clinical situations that they face. This chapter alone makes the book worth owning.

Wolff's Headache and Other Head Pain is a valuable general resource that the active physician should keep close at hand.
— Journal of American Medical Association

George L. Morris

Reviewer: Daniel B. Hier, MD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description: Three outstanding experts on headache have collaborated in editing the 7th edition of Wolff's landmark textbook on headache.
Purpose: The purpose is to gather recognized experts in headache to create the definitive headache textbook for clinicians and researchers.
Audience: This book is aimed at physicians who treat headaches, both primary care physicians and headache experts, as well as at headache researchers.
Features: This is a detailed but readable treatise on headache that sets high standards for science and scholarship. The book is carefully referenced. There is considerable emphasis on careful delineation of headache types according to the International Classification of Headache conventions. Early chapters in the book review headache physiology, genetics, epidemiology, and neuroimaging. The central portion of the book deals with the diagnosis and treatment of major headache types including migraine, cluster headache, tension headache, and chronic daily headache. The last portion of the book deals with specific headache types including post traumatic headache and pseudotumor cerebri.
Assessment: This is a very good and very complete book on headache. Clearly it has been and continues to be the standard reference work on headache. The editors have maintained the high level of scholarship that characterized previous editions. My criticisms of the book are few. I wish the publisher had done a nicer job with the graphics and scans; many of the images lack sharpness or contrast. As reflected in this book, treatment of the migraine headache patient or any headache patient still involves considerable guesswork. I hope that in future editions the editors can bring more evidence-based treatment guidelines to bear on the difficult problem of migraine headaches.

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