TY - JOUR T1 - Headache in primary care. JF - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry JO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry SP - 136 LP - 136 DO - 10.1136/jnnp.71.1.136f VL - 71 IS - 1 AU - A J DOWSON Y1 - 2001/07/01 UR - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/71/1/136.7.abstract N2 - Headache in primary care. By sd silberstein, rb lipton, pj goadsby,and rt smith (Pp 192, £29.95). Published by Isis Medical Media, Oxford, 1999. ISBN 1-901865-66-5.A wide range of textbooks are now available on the topic of headache, ranging from short notes of 40 or 50 pages up to encyclopaedic tomes. This book falls into the middle of the range, being an easy read of 165 pages.The work is divided into three broad categories: (1) pathophysiology and epidemiology of headache, (2) primary headache disorders, and (3) secondary headache disorders.In the first section, the starting point is the International Headache Society (IHS) classification but the bridge to the clinical approach to patients is … ER -