Migraines are often confused with other types of headaches. And with more than 200 different headache types recognized by the International Classification of Headache Disorders, it’s easy to ...

Different types of headaches can cause various symptoms and are typically located in different parts of the head. For instance, cluster headaches often occur behind or around one eye, and migraine ...

If you get a headache 15 or more days each month, you most likely have a chronic headache. Migraines and other types of headaches can become chronic if you take painkillers regularly. A doctor can ...

In a paper published in the May issue of JAMA, M. S. Robbins, of Weill Cornell Medical College, reviews the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of primary headaches. In a previous post, I discussed ...

Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs) are a group of headache disorders characterized, as the name suggests, by autonomic symptoms that accompany the headache. These symptoms commonly include ...