Headache, physiopathological and clinical concepts / editors, Macdonald Critchley [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Critchley, Macdonald.

Series:

Advances in neurology ; v. 33.

Advances in neurology ; v. 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migraine--Congresses.

Migraine.

Headache--Psychosomatic aspects--Congresses.

Headache.

Migraine Disorders.

Headache--Psychosomatic aspects.

Medical Subjects:

Headache.

Migraine Disorders.

Genre:

Kongress -- Florenz -- 1980.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xx, 417 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

regular print

Place of Publication:

New York : Raven Press, [1982]

Contents:

Overview of migraine

Comments on A.P. Friedman's report

What is migraine?

Migraine and the mitral valve prolapse syndrome

Evolution of thinking about the role and site of action of serotonin in migraine

Impairment of cerebral serotonin and energy metabolism during ischemia: relevance to migraine

Headaches and transient cerebral ischemia: comments on Welch's report

Serotonin and cyclic nucleotides in migraine

Rheumatic pain modulation syndrome: the interrelationships between sleep, central nervous system serotonin, and pain

Endorphins and modulation of pain

Natural opioids in migraine

Endorphins in the pathogenesis of headache

Neuronal sensitivity and opiate tolerance/dependence

Effect of antimigraine drugs on nonopioid analgesia

On the etiopathogenesis of migraine: a possible link between the amines and endorphin hypotheses

Mechanisms of opiate analgesia and the role of endorphins in pain suppression

Personality aspects of headache patients

Mechanisms of fever occurring in migraine

Pain and emotion: their correlation in headache

Prolonged benign exertional headache: clinical characteristics and response to indomethacin

Cerebral cortex and migraine.

Impairment of memory pathways in adult and child headache

Neuroendocrine approach to headache

Headache in children

Multiple aspects of headache risk in children

New nonvascular interpretation of syncopal migraine

Sexuality and headache

Menstrual headache

Existential deterrents to headache relief past midlife

Blood platelet 5-hydroxytryptamine accumulation and migraine

Platelet function in migraineurs

Platelet activation: its possible role in the migraine mechanism

Use of platelet inhibitors in migraine

Migraine as a blood disorder: preliminary studies

Serotonin-releasing factors in migrainous patients

Putative 5-HT central feedback in migraine and cluster headache attacks

Platelet aggregation in migraine patients during the headache-free interval

Platelet monoamine oxidase in migraine

Characteristics of extravascular serotonin receptors in the brain

Pharmacology of arteriovenous anastomoses

Basic mechanisms of antimigraine drugs

Agonists and antagonists of vascular receptors

Duration of the biological effect of ergotamine tartrate

Agonists and antagonists of 5-hydroxytryptamine on venomotor receptors.

Some aspects of the dopaminergic action of ergot derivatives and their role in the treatment of migraine

Paradoxical effects of frequent analgesic use

Effects of arterial receptors of ergot derivatives used in migraine

Serotonin precursors in migraine prophylaxis

Disruption of iris adrenergic transmission as an index of poor endorphin modulation in headache

Iatrogenic headache: the hazard of diagnostic investigations

Epidemiology of disabling headache

Monoamine sensitivity of smooth muscle in vivo in nociception disorders

Headache induced by freezing external carotid artery branches

Hemicrania and lateralized cervicoscapular muscular hypertonicity.

Notes:

Papers of an international conference held in Florence in 1980.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Headache, physiopathological and clinical concepts.

ISBN:

0890046360

9780890046364

OCLC:

7923699