Headache In Children And Adolescents

Winner, director of the Palm Beach Headache Center, guides readers through practical clinical issues related to diagnosis and treatment of primary and secondary headache disorders in children and adolescents. Early chapters cover epidemiology, classification, and evaluation of headache. Later chapters cover migraine and the childhood periodic syndromes, genetics of migraine headache, and other primary headaches in this population, as well as chronic daily headache, cluster and the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, secondary headaches, and medical causes of headache. Further topics are epilepsy and migraine, posttraumatic headache, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment, complementary and alterative treatments, and menstrual migraine and other headache issues in girls. Cases, questions, and a glossary are included. A video demonstration of headache disorders, keyed to a chapter of case studies, is available on a companion web site. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)