The Neuropsychiatry of Headache

Whilst the vast majority of headaches are minor ailments, some patients develop chronic symptoms that have psychiatric dimensions. These symptoms can be immensely challenging to manage and can have a serious impact on the patient's quality of life. The relationship between headache and psychiatric disease is often rationalized as cause and effect; however, the interplay between the two is complex. Management of each of the co-morbid disorders affects the other one in positive and/or negative ways. The Neuropsychiatry of Headache details the current concepts of various headache conditions and the psychiatric syndromes; topics covered include migraine, mood disorders, medication overuse and personality disorders. Headache specialists, neurologists, psychiatrists, neuropsychiatrists and neuropsychologists will find this an invaluable resource for understanding and co-managing these conditions.Preface; 1. Epidemiology of the psychiatric co-morbidities of headache Kathleen Mullin, Dawn C. Buse, C. Mark Sollars and Richard B. Lipton; 2. Migraine Mark W. Green; 3. Tension-type headache Robert G. Kaniecki; 4. Mood disorder and headache Mallika Lavakumar, Philip R. Muskin and Peter A. Shapiro; 5. Anxiety disorders and primary headache Justin M. Nash, Rabin Chandran and Lucy Rathier; 6. Stress and headache Carolyn B. Britton; 7. Drug dependence in headache patients Margaret E. M. Haglund and Eric D. Collins; 8. The neuropsychiatry of psychosis and headache Sander Markx; 9. Chronic daily headache Rob Cowan; 10. Stress management Nomita Sonty; 11. Working with personality and personality disorders in the headache patient Elizabeth Haase; 12. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches to headache Maurice Preter and Samuel Lieblich; 13. Somatoform disorders and headache Filza Hussain, Peter A. Shapiro and Philip R. Muskin; Index.