本书解释了头痛后面的科学，如何了解你的症状，以及如何治疗你的头痛。头痛是人类最常见的健康问题之一，大部分不是什么大碍，只是很讨厌。但是，对于有些人，头痛是个大问题，是生活上的极大障碍。在英国，大概有1千万人有偏头痛的问题，而超过50万人是每天，或近乎每天，都有头痛的问题。

在这本书中，作者Dr. Mark Weatherall解释了头痛背后的科学知识，为什么我们会头痛，以及哪些人比较容易头痛。这本书涵盖了最常见的几种头痛以及它们是如何被辨识，如何治疗头痛，以及最常被问的问题。

这是一个简单易懂的书，帮助你辨识自己的头痛，掌控自己的治疗！

关于作者：

Dr Mark Weatherall is a Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Lead for Neurology at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, former Chair of the British Association for the Study of Headache and Trustee of The Migraine Trust. He was a highly regarded historian of medicine before studying clinical medicine at Cambridge. Junior medical jobs followed in Cambridge, London and Oxford, before he completed his specialist training in neurology in the North-West of England. He spent twelve months as a clinical research fellow at the Institute of Neurology in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh.

His interests include the diagnosis and management of chronic migraine, facial pain, visual snow and secondary headaches associated with systemic disorders, as well as the historical, social and cultural aspects of headache disorders. He has made presentations on these subjects at recent meetings of the International Headache Society, the European Headache Federation, the Migraine Trust International Symposium, and the Association of British Neurologists. He actively promotes the importance of headache disorders through social media such as Twitter (@weatherallmw), and more traditional media platforms.