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Migraine Biology, Diagnosis, and Co-Morbidities, Volume 198 covers a wide range of issues related to migraine. The epidemiology, global, and personal impacts of migraine are covered, including topics on the pathophysiology of migraine and migraine aura, the pathophysiology of the associated symptoms of photophobia and phonophobia, and the genetics of migraine. The classification and diagnostic criteria of common and uncommon subtypes of migraine are also explored in detail, including childhood variants. Issues related to the diagnosis and management of vestibular migraine and the co-morbid disorder of persistent postural-perceptual dizziness are also covered. Finally, the important comorbidities of migraine such as anxiety, depression and other forms of chronic pain are discussed, along with the current state and future directions of migraine research and management.
Summarizes research and clinical information on the pathophysiology of migrainesExplores the pathophysiology of aura, photophobia, and phonophobiaDiscusses migraine triggersReviews migraine subtypes and comorbid conditions in migraineExplores the relationship of migraine to chronic pain and cerebrovascular and psychological conditionsConcludes with future directions in migraine research and treatment
Foreword
Preface
Contributors
History of migraine
Societal and personal impact of migraine
Epidemiology of migraine
The anatomy of head pain
Migraine headache pathophysiology
Pathophysiology of migraine aura
Genetics of migraine: Delineation of contemporary understanding of the genetic underpinning of migraine
What imaging has revealed about migraine and chronic migraine
What has neurophysiology revealed about migraine and chronic migraine?
Migraine prodromes and migraine triggers
Migraine without aura
Migraine with aura
Chronic migraine and medication overuse
Infantile colic
Abdominal migraine and cyclical vomiting syndrome
Alternating hemiplegia of childhood
Benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood
Benign paroxysmal torticollis
Index