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September 2000
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THE HEADACHES.
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Service of Neurology, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
The first edition of this headache encyclopedia was a `successful experiment', to use the Editors' words. The previous edition of this volume justifiably appeared in 1993, after a few years of crucial advances in the headache field, basic science, e.g. discovery of 5-HT receptor subtypes, the clinical arena, with the publication of the headache classification and operational criteria of the International Society in 1988, and in the therapeutic area, with the development of sumatriptan. With the inevitable defects of a big book of multiple authorship, mainly repetition and heterogeneous style, the first edition of this book brilliantly covered the large headache world, impossible for a single author to handle nowadays.
As the Editors point out in their Preface to this second edition, headache research has progressed at an ever-accelerating pace over the last 7 years, which again justifies this newborn volume. The discovery of the first migraine gene, coding for
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