Cluster Headaches: Medicine’s Mystery Malady
In The Beginning
Humankind has always suffered from headaches. The first written records discussing cluster headaches were in the mid-1600s. At that time the headaches were described by the intensity of the pain or given the name of the author describing them. Wilfred Harris, a British neurologist, was among the first to accurately describe the episodic nature of the headaches. Later, in 1939, Dr. Bayard Taylor Horton, a US neurologist, further described the characteristics of the severe headaches. For a while, they were known as Horton's cephalalgia. By 1952, researchers fully understood the nature of cluster headaches and gave them the name still in use
Why Me?
Cluster headaches often include
In The Beginning
Humankind has always suffered from headaches. The first written records discussing cluster headaches were in the mid-1600s. At that time the headaches were described by the intensity of the pain or given the name of the author describing them. Wilfred Harris, a British neurologist, was among the first to accurately describe the episodic nature of the headaches. Later, in 1939, Dr. Bayard Taylor Horton, a US neurologist, further described the characteristics of the severe headaches. For a while, they were known as Horton's cephalalgia. By 1952, researchers fully understood the nature of cluster headaches and gave them the name still in use
Why Me?
Cluster headaches often include