An extensive volume on headache biology and management from a pioneer and leading expert, serving as a guide to both researchers and physicians in the headache and migraine field
1. Introduction - The History of Headache - Seymour
Diamond and Mary Franklin
2. Classification, Mechanism, Biochemistry, and Genetics of
Headache - Andrew H. Ahn
3. Evaluation of the Headache Patient in the Computer Age
- Edmund John Messina
4. Screening and Testing of the Headache Patient - George R.
Nissan
5. Overview of Migraine: Recognition, Diagnosis, and
Pathophysiology - Mark W. Green and Rachel Colman
6. Complicated Migraine - Mark W. Green and Rachel Colman
7. Cerebrovascular Disease and Migraine - Michael Star and
José Biller
8. Acute and Preventative Treatment of Episodic Migraine -
Roger K. Cady and Kathleen Farmer
9. The Disease of Chronic Migraine: Diagnosis and Management
- Roger K. Cady and Paul Durham
10. Gender-based Issues in Headache - Merle L. Diamond
11. Cluster Headache - Frederick G. Freitag and Jon
Florczak
12. Tension-Type Headache - Robert G. Kaniecki
13. Post-Traumatic Headache - Sylvia M. Lucas
14. Headache and the Eye - Benjamin Frishberg
15. Cranial Neuralgias, Sinus Headache, and Vestibular Migraine
- Jan Lewis Brandes
16. Cervicogenic Headache - Wade Cooper and Amit Masih
17. Headache in Children and Adolescents - Jack Gladstein,
Howard Jacobs and David Rothner A
18. The Psychiatric Approach to Headache - Robert B.
Shulman
19. Psychological Approaches to Headache - Elizabeth K.
Seng and Steven M. Baskin
20. Too Much of a Good Thing: Medication Overuse Headache
- Duren Michael Ready
21. Presentation of Headache in the Emergency Department and Its
Triage - Benjamin W. Friedman
22. Headache Clinics - Merle L. Diamond
23. Inpatient Treatment of Headaches - Alexander
Feoktistov
24. Newer Research and Its Significance - Vincent Martin
A pioneer in the headache field, Dr. Seymour Diamond has spent
almost 50 years developing better diagnostic tools and treatment
options for headache conditions and has played integral roles in
transforming the entire field's approach. A recipient of the
American Headache Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award, he has
accomplished a laundry list of “firsts in the field of headache
medicine, his greatest contribution being his unwavering commitment
to creating the first true continuum of care for patients.Dr.
Diamond is Executive Chairman and Founder of the National Headache
Foundation and Director Emeritus and Founder of the world-famous
Diamond Headache Clinic. He previously served as Adjunct Professor
of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at Chicago Medical School at
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North
Chicago, Illinois, as well as a Clinical Professor in the
Department of Family Medicine. Also, he served as a Lecturer,
Department of Family Medicine (Neurology) at Loyola University
Chicago/Stritch School of Medicine. He received his medical degree
from the Chicago Medical School, and was honored with the
Distinguished Alumni Award in 1977 and the President's Award in
2002. He has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of
Medicine, Neurology Section, has received the National Migraine
Foundation Lectureship Award, and was honored by the British
Migraine Trust as the initial recipient of the Migraine Trust
Lectureship. He has also served as editor or on the editorial board
for 31 publications; has published more than 490 articles in
professional literature; and has authored or co-authored more than
70 books.
Dr. Cady is the founder of Headache Care Center, Clinvest, and
Primary Care Education. He is a graduate of the Mayo Medical
School, and is Board Certified by the American Board of Family
Practice. His board certification in Headache Medicine was awarded
by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties, and he holds a
Certificate of Added Qualification through the National Board of
Certification in Headache Management. He is a member of multiple
medical associations, including the American Medical Association,
the National Headache Foundation, the American Headache Society,
the American Academy of Pain Management, and the American Academy
of Family Physicians. Dr. Cady is best known in the medical
community for his pivotal contributions in the field of headache
and migraine management. He was the co-recipient of the prestigious
Wolff Award in 2000 from the American Headache Society for his
research entitled “The Spectrum of Headache. He is well-published
and has presented countless lectures and seminars around the world
on headache, migraine, and other chronic disorders, and continues
to be the principal investigator in numerous multi-center research
studies. Dr. Cady currently serves on 12 Advisory Boards and is a
member of the Board of Directors for the National Headache
Foundation. Dr. Diamond graduated with high honors from the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and received her medical
education from Northwestern University Medical School in
Chicago.She completed residencies in Emergency Medicine/Internal
Medicine at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. She
has received Subspecialty Certification for Headache Medicine from
the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. She also is a
former fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and
currently is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal
Medicine.She joined the staff of the Diamond Headache Clinic in
1989 after serving as an attending physician and clinical
instructor at Northwestern University Hospital in Chicago, and as
an attending physician at Evanston and St. Francis Hospitals, both
in Evanston, Illinois. Dr. Diamond currently is an attending
physician in Internal Medicine and Director of the Diamond
Inpatient Headache Unit. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor,
Department of Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine
and Science /Chicago Medical School. Also, she is a Lecturer in the
Department of Medicine (Neurology), Loyola University
Chicago/Stritch School of Medicine. She has contributed numerous
articles to the medical literature, and has lectured extensively on
various headache subjects; in particular, the treatment of headache
in the emergency department and hormones and headache. With Dr.
Glen Solomon, she co-edited Diamond and Dalessio’s Practicing
Physician’s Approach to Headache, 6th edition (1999). Mark W.
Green, M.D. is Professor of Neurology and Director of Headache and
Pain Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York
City.
Dr. Mark W. Green is Director of the Center for Headache and Pain
Medicine and Professor of Neurology and Anesthesiology at the Mount
Sinai School of Medicine. He recently came to Mount Sinai from
Columbia University, where he was Director of Headache Medicine and
Clinical Professor of Neurology (in Neurology, Anesthesiology and
Dentistry) at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the
College of Dental Medicine. He is certified in Neurology by the
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and in Headache Medicine
through the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties.
Dr. Green graduated from Case Western Reserve University, and
received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine. He received his neurology training at the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine and during that period worked in the Montefiore
Headache Unit of Albert Einstein. He was later appointed director
of that unit. He came to Columbia University in 1981, and then New
York Medical College. He returned to Columbia University ten years
ago to organize a section on headache and facial pain in the
department of neurology.
Dr. Green was elected to the Board of Directors of the National
Headache Foundation in spring 2010. He was one of the founding
editors of Cephalagia, the international headache journal. He also
served as the Associate Editor of Headache, the journal of the
American Headache Society and is currently the abstract editor of
that journal. He has a long-standing interest in neuropharmacology
and is a panel member of the Advisory Board of the Food and Drug
Administration’s Section on Peripheral and Central Neurological
Drugs.
Dr. Green has been active in the practice of headache and facial
pain since 1978. He has lectured throughout the world on this
subject and has written numerous articles on various subjects
concerning headache and facial pain.
Vincent Martin, MD, the director of the Headache and Facial Pain
Program at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute, has
been a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Internal
Medicine since 2004. Dr. Martin is the President of the Ohio
Headache Association and Vice President of the National Headache
Foundation. He has also been a fellow of the American Headache
Society and the American College of Physicians.
After graduating from the University of Cincinnati College of
Medicine Dr. Martin completed a residency in internal medicine,
followed by a fellowship in general internal medicine at UC. Dr.
Martin was Chief Resident of the Department of Internal Medicine
during his fellowship at UC.
"...a comprehensive and thorough review of up-to-date scientific and clinical research and experience…a valuable resource for those involved in managing patients with these disorders as well as for those who want to get a greater understanding of headaches in general. Score: 91 - 4 Stars" --Doody's
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