Bench to bedside: what have we learnt recently about headache?
Headache is perhaps the commonest of human maladies and recent years have seen large advances in understanding the basic mechanisms of head pain. The anatomy and physiology of pain transmission within the cranium have been elucidated, and advances been made into the pathophysiology of migraine and to a lesser extent cluster headache.
Goadsby
P J
PJ
Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK. peterg@brain.ion.ucl.ac.uk
D006261:Headache / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans