Tension-Type Headache

Examines advances in pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy of tension-type headache. The book confronts key questions such as the medico-social impact, the adequacy of diagnostic criteria, psychiatric factors and the significance of recent data. It includes discussions of therapeutic strategies.

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In this volume, specialists from a variety of medical and basic science discplines examine the latest advances in pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapy of tension-type headache. These experts confront the key questions regarding the medico-social impact of tension-type headache; the adequacy of present diagnostic criteria; the involvement of peripheral and central pain mechanisms in tension-headache pathogenesis; the role of psychiatric fractors; the significance of recent data about myofascial and central nociception; the experimental models used to study tension-type headache; and the neurophysiological and biochemical abnormalities that characterize this disorder. The book includes extensive discussions of new therapeutic strategies such as behavioural techniques, peripherally acting analgesics and muscle relaxants, psychotropic drugs, amitriptylinoxide, and amitriptyline.