Main description:

Migraine Biology, Diagnosis, and Co-Morbidities, Volume 195 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.

The important comorbidities of migraine such as anxiety, depression and other forms of chronic pain will also be discussed, along with the current state and future directions of migraine research and management.

Contents:

Section I. Migraine: The Human and Societal Impact 1. History of migraine 2. Societal and personal impact of migraine

Section II. Biology of Migraine 3. Epidemiology of migraine 4. The anatomy of head pain 5. Migraine headache pathophysiology 6. Aura-pathophysiology 7. Pathophysiology of photophobia and phonophobia 8. Genetics of Migraine: delineation of contemporary understanding of the genetic underpinning of migraine 9. Experimental models of migraine 10. What imaging has revealed about migraine and chronic migraine 11. What neurophysiology has revealed about migraine and chronic migraine 12. Migraine prodrome and migraine triggers

Section III. Migraine diagnosis 13. Migraine without aura 14. Migraine with aura 15. Chronic migraine and medication overuse headache

Section IV. Episodic syndromes that may be associated with migraine 16. Infantile colic 17. Abdominal migraine and cyclical vomiting syndrome 18. Alternating hemiplegia of childhood 19. Benign paroxysmal vertigo 20. Benign paroxysmal torticollis