Headache is a common symptom caused by a wide variety of diseases. Primary headaches include migraine, cluster headache, tension-type headache, and other less common diseases. It is important to differentiate these headaches from secondary headaches caused by vascular, neoplastic, infectious, metabolic, or toxic disorders. Most primary headaches have a genetic basis, with environmental factors ...

Epidemiological studies suggest that medication-overuse as defined by the International Headache Society is extremely common in patients with chronic daily headache. If all medication-overuse produces medication-overuse headache (MOH) in headache patients, it would be the third most frequent form of headache, after tension-type headache and migraine. Treatment of MOH is hindered by the absence ...

OBJECTIVE Despite the high prevalence of headaches in youths, quality of life (QOL) has not been well examined. We examined QOL in a clinical sample of children with headaches and compared it with children with other chronic diseases. METHODS A survey study was conducted of 572 consecutive patients (mean age, 11.4 +/- 3.6 years) who presented with headaches to a children's headache center. Ch...