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22-04-2022 | Headache | History of Neurology

Critical headache: reporting a type of headache in the acute stage of a disease, described by Avicenna

Authors: Narges Sharifi Darani, Majid Dadmehr, Mohsen Bahrami, Mahdi Alizadeh Vaghasloo

Published in: Neurological Sciences | Issue 7/2022

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A review of historical evidence shows that the history of headache is almost certainly as old as the history of human civilization. Avicenna (980–1037 AD), who is the most prominent physician during the Islamic Golden Age (early medieval time, ninth to twelfth centuries AD), has devoted a section to headaches in his famous book, Canon of Medicine (Qānūn fī al-Tibb) [1]. …

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Title: Critical headache: reporting a type of headache in the acute stage of a disease, described by Avicenna
Authors: Narges Sharifi Darani
Majid Dadmehr
Mohsen Bahrami
Mahdi Alizadeh Vaghasloo
Publication date: 22-04-2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keyword: Headache
Published in: Neurological Sciences / Issue 7/2022
Print ISSN: 1590-1874
Electronic ISSN: 1590-3478
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-022-06082-z

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