Headache is one of the most common neurological symptoms, encompassing primary disorders in which the headache is the condition itself—such as tension-type, migraine, and cluster headache—and secondary headaches arising from an underlying cause such as vascular, structural, or inflammatory disease. Its mechanisms in…
Headache is one of the most common neurological symptoms, encompassing primary disorders in which the headache is the condition itself—such as tension-type, migraine, and cluster headache—and secondary headaches arising from an underlying cause such as vascular, structural, or inflammatory disease. Its mechanisms involve trigeminovascular activation, altered cerebral hemodynamics and reactivity, muscular and nociceptive pathways, and central pain processing, with triggers including stress, sleep disturbance, dehydration, and environmental factors. Accurate classification distinguishes benign primary headache from secondary causes that require specific investigation and treatment. Research in related neurological areas examines brain hemodynamics and cerebrovascular reactivity in tension-type headache, occipital neuralgia and its surgical decompression, sacral injection experience, and the headache and neurological manifestations of conditions such as lacunar infarction, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, chiasmal lesions, and neurosarcoidosis. Studies also address self-medication practices, the historical use of blinding in neurological trials, and headache in the context of broader systemic and neuropsychiatric disease. Methods include clinical case series, hemodynamic and imaging studies, and reviews. By separating primary headache disorders from secondary causes, this field guides diagnosis and targeted management. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on the mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment of headache and related neurological disorders.
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