Author Description

In this volume, specialists from a variety of medical and basic science disciplines 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 factors; 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 behavioral techniques, peripherally acting analgesics and muscle relaxants, psychotropic drugs, amitriptylinoxide, and amitriptyline.