There are two crucial issues in the treatment and management of headache patients: More than 50% of individuals experiencing headache have only been treated symptomatically, with no appropriate diagnosis established; and history and neurologic examination are essential to establishing a diagnosis, and thus selecting appropriate therapy.

1. Introduction - The History of Headache -  Seymour Diamond and Mary Franklin 2. Classification, Mechanism, Biochemistry, and Genetics of Headache -  Andrew H. Ahn3. Evaluation of the Headache Patient in the Computer Age -  Edmund John Messina4. Screening and Testing of the Headache Patient -  George R. Nissan5. Overview of Migraine: Recognition, Diagnosis, and Pathophysiology -  Mark W. Green and Rachel Colman 6. Complicated Migraine -  Mark W. Green and Rachel Colman 7. Cerebrovascular Disease and Migraine -  Michael Star and José Biller 8. Acute and Preventative Treatment of Episodic Migraine -  Roger K. Cady and Kathleen Farmer9. The Disease of Chronic Migraine: Diagnosis and Management -  Roger K. Cady and Paul Durham 10. Gender-based Issues in Headache -  Merle L. Diamond11. Cluster Headache -  Frederick G. Freitag and Jon Florczak 12. Tension-Type Headache -  Robert G. Kaniecki13. Post-Traumatic Headache -  Sylvia M. Lucas14. Headache and the Eye -  Benjamin Frishberg15. Cranial Neuralgias, Sinus Headache, and Vestibular Migraine -  Jan Lewis Brandes16. Cervicogenic Headache -  Wade Cooper and Amit Masih 17. Headache in Children and Adolescents -  Jack Gladstein, Howard Jacobs and David Rothner A 18. The Psychiatric Approach to Headache -  Robert B. Shulman19. Psychological Approaches to Headache -  Elizabeth K. Seng and Steven M. Baskin 20. Too Much of a Good Thing:  Medication Overuse Headache -  Duren Michael Ready21. Presentation of Headache in the Emergency Department and Its Triage -  Benjamin W. Friedman22. Headache Clinics -  Merle L. Diamond23. Inpatient Treatment of Headaches -  Alexander Feoktistov24. Newer Research and Its Significance -  Vincent Martin