[Headache from the neurological point of view].

After a short review of the most important clinical signs of headaches including history and dynamic course as well as diagnostic management a systematic presentation of the most common neurological headache forms is given with the aid of tabular surveys. Considered are: psychogenic headache, tension headache, migraine including its special forms, cluster headache, headache associated with giant cell arteritis, meningeal irritation or space occupying cerebral lesions, trigeminal neuralgia and posttraumatic headache. Some less common special forms like the low spinal fluid pressure syndrome or the Tolosa Hunt syndrome are briefly discussed.