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The Ad Hoc Committee on Classification of Headache

Arch Neurol. 1962;6(3):173-176.

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Introduction

The term headache commonly denotes head pain from brow level up. This outline defines headaches somewhat broadly: It covers both painful and nonpainful discomforts of the entire head, including the face and upper nucha. Since so much that a man describes as headache may be any abnormal head sensation, it is essential for proper treatment to determine whether the complaint is actually one of pain. A useful scheme for the classification of the varieties of headache is one based on pain mechanisms. The divisions rest on experimental and clinical data, together with reasonable inference; the story is far from complete. Yet the arrangement can serve as a framework for diagnostic criteria for the major clinical types of headache, and by emphasis on basic mechanisms it offers a logical approach to the planning of therapeutic trials. For convenience, short and simple names are suggested for certain major entities and are . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Footnotes
Received for publication Dec. 22, 1961.

Supported by a grant from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness.

The Ad Hoc Committee was composed of Drs. Arnold P. Friedman (chairman), Knox H. Finley, John R. Graham, E. Charles Kunkle, Adrian M. Ostfeld, and Harold G. Wolff.

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