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This issue of Neurologic Clinics reviews migraine and other primary headaches, one of the most common disorders seen by neurologists and primary care physicians and which affect 90% of the population and are the cause of 90% of all headaches. World-class experts provide cutting-edge chapters on the following topics: the epidemiology, burden and comorbidities of migraine; pathophysiology of migraine; transient neurologic dysfunction in migraine; vestibular migraine; diagnostic testing for migraine and other primary headaches; acute treatment of migraine; preventive migraine treatment; chronic migraine; pediatric migraine; women and migraine; the migraine association with cardiac anomalies, cardiovascular disease and stroke; tension-type headache; trigeminal autonomic cephalgias; and other primary headaches.
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Migraine and Other Primary Headaches
Preface
Randolph W. Evans, MD Guest Editor
This issue of Neurologic Clinics reviews migraine and other primary headaches, one of the most common disorders seen by neurologists (accounting for about 20% of the general neurologist’s practice), which affects 90% of the population and is the cause of 90% of all headaches. Secondary headache disorders were reviewed in Neurologic Clinics in 2004. Primary headache manifestations vary from the most mundane to among the most interesting in all of neurology. Migraine and tension-type headaches affect huge portions of the population, at times with significant impairment, with about 35 million persons yearly having attacks in the United States. Tension-type headaches have a lifetime prevalence of up to 78%. Neurologists may be particularly interested in migraine as over 50% of neurologists themselves are migraineurs. Many of the neurologist’s patients (and often the bane of their practice) are the 4-5% of the population with chronic daily headache and 0.5%