- Describes the role of psychological and medical factors in the development of headache
- Provides up-to-date information on psychiatric, psychological, and medical disorders linked to headache
- Explains how to select the most effective headache treatment strategy to take account of comorbidities
- Clarifies the impact of comorbidities on the frequency and outcome of primary headaches
This book aims to provide clinicians and other practitioners and professionals with up-to-date information on how to evaluate and manage headaches in children and adolescents, highlighting the most recent recommendations.
Unlike in other books on the subject, detailed attention is devoted to the various comorbidities commonly associated with headache, including psychiatric comorbidities such as depression, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and learning disabilities and medical conditions such as epilepsy, vascular disorders, brain tumors, atopic disease, and obesity. The intimate link between these conditions and headache is explained with a view to enabling the reader to recognize their presence and, on that basis, to institute the most effective pharmacological or non-pharmacological treatment strategy.
Moreover, knowledge of the comorbidities associated with headache will help readers to understand more fully the causes of this serious disorder and also its consequences, e.g., for school performance, relationships, and daily activities.
The authors are all international experts who care for children with headache or the other described disorders.
Table of Contents- 1 Epidemiology of Headache in Children and Adolescents.-
- 2 Classification and Limits.-
- 3 Migraine Genetics.-
- 4 Epigenetics.-
- 5 Headache, Burden and Quality of Life.-
- 6 Child Abuse and Headache in Children and Adolescents.-
- 7 Childhood Episodic Syndromes That May Be Associated with Migraine.-
- 8 Comorbidity with ADHD.-
- 9 Comorbidity with Asthma and Atopic Disorders.-
- 10 Comorbidity of Migraine with Asthma and Other Atopic Disorders.-
- 11 Comorbidity with Brain Tumors.- 12 Headache and Epilepsy.-
- 13 Comorbidity with Psychiatric Disorders.-
- 14 Headache in Autism Spectrum Disorders.-
- 15 Headache: Comorbidity with Vascular Disorders.-
- 16 Pediatric and Adolescent Headache and Obesity.-
- 17 Comorbidity with Learning Disabilities.-
- 18 Comorbidity with Fibromyalgia. -
- 19 Headache and Compliance in Children.-
- 20 Pharmacological Treatment of Headache and Comorbidities.-
- 21 Non-pharmacological Treatment in Headache with Comorbidity.-
- 22 Cognitive Therapy for Comorbid Disorders in Children and Adolescents with Headache
