This lecture concerns the potential origins of and risk factors for headaches, their neuroanatomical basis and key information that can be gleaned from the clinical history to assist in their differential diagnosis.

Learning objectives

> You should be able to describe potential origins and risk factors for headaches

> You should be able to review the neuroanatomical basis of the risk factors and potential origins

> You should be able to identify key information in clinical history in order to use it in differential diagnosis