Clinician’s Guide to Headache - Head, Neck, and Face Pain Syndromes

Clinician's Guide to Headache: Head, Neck and Face Pain Syndromes is a comprehensive reference that covers what headache specialists encounter in day-to-day headache practice settings. This practical volume is relevant as a primary reference for neurologists and other headache specialists looking for a resource on complex, acute headache management. Developments in the field are highlighted, including biologics and invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation. Chapters focus on anatomy and pathophysiology, neuroradiology, acute and chronic headaches, and clinically relevant sections on diagnosis and biases, consultation settings, placebos and nocebos, as well as the set-up of a comprehensive headache center.

With a foundation based on recent developments in pathophysiology and anatomy, this volume provides an overview of headache disorders with a case-based approach.

About the author

Dr. Thomas is a Neurologist and Headache Specialist and Honorary Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Queen Square Institute of Neurology at the University College London. The Chairman of the World Headache Society, he is a board-certified neurologist and Founder, Trustee, & Treasurer of the Asia Pacific Headache Society. He is a Consultant?Neurologist and?Lead of Headache Medicine in Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust. Dr. Thomas is a reviewer for Headache, the official journal of the American Headache Society and the Chief of the Headache Section of the Journal on Recent Advances in Pain. He has more than 20 years’ experience treating patients with headache and is a board-certified neurologist and completed his clinical fellowship in headache.

Product details

• Assisted by: Raziya Adam Kadwa (Editor), Pravin Thomas (Editor), Pravin (Pravin Thomas Thomas (Editor), Paul Yambao (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.12.2025
• EAN: 9780323953139
• ISBN: 978-0-323-95313-9
• Weight: 450 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL / Neuroscience, MEDICAL / Neurology, MEDICAL / Physiology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Neurosciences, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognitive Science,

  Headache; headache emergencies; migraine neurology