Pharmacological outline of chronic headache patients: overlap between depressive and nociceptive symptomatology

This book is a collection of 30 chapters of widely varying subject matter—the unifying theme being that these chapters deal with depression, headache, or both. Sections include the following: neurochemistry of 5-hydroxytryptamine pathways, with four excellent chapters on this subject and review of findings as they relate to headache, depression, and pain; chronic headache and mood disorders, four primarily clinical chapters with a brief, interesting review of pain threshold studies; periodicity of affective and headache disorders, with chapters on seasonal cycles found in depression, menstrual cycles in mood and headache, and effects of different treatments; drugs affecting the serotonergic system (seven chapters of widely varying quality) with three review articles, one (by Sicuteri) giving a summary of his overall formulation of central pain systems, another summarizing data on serotonin and depression, and three subsequent studies briefly reporting results on specific pharmacologic agents