Clinician's Guide to Headache. Head, Neck, and Face Pain Syndromes

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March 2025
Elsevier Science and Technology
ID: 5947772

Clinician's Guide to Headache: Head, Neck and Face Pain Syndromes is a comprehensive reference that covers what headache specialists encounter in day-to-day headache practice settings. This practical volume is relevant as a primary reference for neurologists and other headache specialists looking for a resource on complex, acute headache management. Developments in the field are highlighted, including biologics and invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation. Chapters focus on anatomy and pathophysiology, neuroradiology, acute and chronic headaches, and clinically relevant sections on diagnosis and biases, consultation settings, placebos and nocebos, as well as the set-up of a comprehensive headache center. With a foundation based on recent developments in pathophysiology and anatomy, this volume provides an overview of headache disorders with a case-based approach.

1. Classification of Head, Neck and Face Pain: Towards a mechanism- and biomarker-based pragmatic model
2. History and clinical examination in a patient with headache and facial pain
3. Head and neck anatomy through clinical cases
4. Pathophysiology through clinical cases
5. Migraine and Migraine-like headaches
6. Medication overuse headaches
7. Headaches with autonomic dysfunction
8. Neuralgic Headaches
9. Headache associated with CSF dysregulation
10. Headaches associated CNS and systemic infections
11. Headaches with metabolic derangement
12. Headaches in neuro and systemic inflammatory diseases
13. Headaches in neurovascular disorders
14. Approach to a patient with neck pain
15. Approach to a patient with face pain
16. Headache and Epilepsy
17. Headache with Cognitive and Behavioral Impairment
18. Headache with Ophthalmic involvement
19. Headache and Sleep
20. Headache and children
21. Neuroradiology through clinical cases
22. Pharmacology through clinical cases
23. Management of explosive and worst ever headahces
24. Interventional Headache Medicine
25. Yoga, acupuncture, meditation and other alternative therapies for headaches
26. Nutrition and Headache

Authors

Pravin Thomas Pravin Thomas, MD, MBBS, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK. Dr. Thomas is a Neurologist and Headache Specialist and Honorary Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Queen Square Institute of Neurology at the University College London. The Chairman of the World Headache Society, he is a board-certified neurologist and Founder, Trustee, & Treasurer of the Asia Pacific Headache Society. He is a Consultant?Neurologist and?Lead of Headache Medicine in Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust. Dr. Thomas is a reviewer for Headache, the official journal of the American Headache Society and the Chief of the Headache Section of the Journal on Recent Advances in Pain. He has more than 20 years' experience treating patients with headache and is a board-certified neurologist and completed his clinical fellowship in headache.

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