From basic pain mechanisms to headache

Edited by Jes Olesen, Troels S Jensen. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, £85.00 (hardback), pp 261. ISBN 978-0-19-856981-7 We cannot doubt that headache is painful, but in many hospitals and university centres, there seems to be remarkably little academic or even clinical interchange between neurologists seeing patients with headache syndromes and anaesthetists running pain clinics, let alone with the basic scientists working in the field. The approaches needed seem …