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Atlas of Headache

Damian R Wren

Department of Neurology, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Wimbledon SW20 0NE, UK

S D Silberstein, A Stiles, W B Young, T D Rozen
136 pp Price £62.99 ISBN 1-85070-547-X (h/b)
London: Parthenon Publishing, 2002

Dr Silberstein and his coauthors offer chapters on the history of headache and its epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment. The discussion includes migraine, tension type headache and cluster headache as well as some of the more unusual primary and secondary disorders, and covers all the essential points for medical students, doctors in training and those in primary care. Each chapter has a short list of important references. But this is an atlas, and the illustrations are the main point. It includes classic images from other texts as well as new images contributed by physicians from all over the world. Headache lends itself particularly well to visual images and many of the illustrations are excellent. I have just two criticisms. First, the text and the illustrations are presented separately, so when reading the text one is continually flipping backwards and forwards trying to find the relevant images. Second, inclusion of a CD-ROM containing the images would have made the atlas not only a pleasure to look through but also a useful teaching tool. For the images alone I would recommend this collection to anyone with an interest in headache.

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