Headache Information for patients and health care professionals

Headache is divided into primary and secondary headache.  Secondary headaches are due to a non-genetic underlying cause.  Most headaches are primary.

Learn how headaches affect children.

Some headache types predominate in men: cluster headaches and, contrary to popular belief, sexually-induced orgasmic headaches.  Migraines affect men as well.

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What happens during a migraine?  Lots!  And we are finding out more and more all the time.

Triggers lower the threshold, and permit a migraine to happen more easily, but are not the cause of a migraine.

Overview of some of the major categories of primary and secondary headaches.

Migraine headaches affect women three times more frequently than men, and is the twelfth highest cause of disability in women worldwide.