title: [Functional headache].
abstract: Not all functional types of headache are of psychogenic orgin. Many are due to minor irritative lesions or to refractory anomalies. Only a very small number of headache types can be regarded as psychogenic without further examination. In most cases functional and organic causes are involved. A detailed analysis of the evolution and localization of headache, together with thorough internal and neurological examinations are necessary to enable one to categorize a headache with any confidence. If depression and tension prevail, it is important to reduce the patient's consumption of painkillers by means of antidepressive agents, autogenic training or betablockers.
mesh_terms: D000319:Adrenergic beta-Antagonists / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001326:Autogenic Training; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000319:Adrenergic beta-Antagonists; D000928:Antidepressive Agents
vernacular_title: Funktionelle Kopfschmerzen.