Table of Contents

1: Joanna M. Zakrzewska and Turo Nurmikko: INTRODUCTION
2: Joanna M. Zakrzewska: HISTORY AND CLASSIFICATION OF TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA AND OTHER CRANIAL NEURALGIAS
3: Mark Obermann, Turo Nurmikko, Scott Diehl, and Ze'ev Seltzer: REVIEW OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE FACE IN VIEW OF PAIN GENERATING AND MEDIATING MECHANISMS
4: Vishal Aggarwal and Joanna M. Zakrzewska: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA AND ITS VARIANTS
5: Joanna M. Zakrzewska, Turo Nurmikko, Karen Davis, Mojgen Hodaie, Andrea Truini, and Gianfranco De Stefano: GENERAL APPROACH TO DIAGNOSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF THE FACIAL PAIN PATIENT
6: Turo Nurmikko and Joanna M. Zakrzewska: TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA - DIAGNOSIS AND CLASSIFICACTION
7: Joanna M. Zakrzewska and Stine Maarbjerg: CLASSICAL and IDIOPATHIC TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA
8: Turo Nurmikko and Andrea Truini: SECONDARY TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA
9: Giulia Di Stefano, Turo Nurmikko, and Joanna M. Zakrzewska: TREATMENT OF TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA- PHARMACOLOGICAL
10: Kim Burchiel, Mark Sindou, Raymond Sekula, Jean Regis, Constantin Tuleasca, Owen Sparrow, Imran Noorani, and Joanna M. Zakrzewska: TREATMENT OF TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA - SURGICAL
11: Satu Jaaskelainen and Turo Nurmikko: PAINFUL TRIGEMINAL NEUROPATHY
12: Claudia Sommer and Raymond Sekula: GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NEURALGIA AND NEUROPATHY AND N. INTERMEDIUS NEURALGIA AND NEUROPATHY
13: Francis O'Neill and Turo Nurmikko: OTHER CRANIAL NEURALGIAS
14: Anish Bahra, Mohammed Amer, Pravin Thomas, Giorgio Lambru, and Matteo Fuccaro: TRIGEMINO-AUTONOMIC CEPHALALGIAS
15: Lene Baad Hansen and Pankay Taneja: OTHER COMMON NON-NEUROPATHIC FACIAL PAIN CONDITIONS
16: Clare Daniel: ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN THE EXPERIENCE OF TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA
17: Jillie Abbott, Claire Patterson, and Elena Semino: PATIENT SUPPORT GROUPS
18: Joanna M. Zakrzewska, Turo Nurmikko, and William Cheshire: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
19: Deborah Padfield, Alison Glenn, and Ann Eastman: FACE2FACE - VISUAL JOURNEYS THROUGH TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA

About the Author

Joanna M. Zakrzewska is both dentally and medically trained (King's College London and University of Cambridge). Between 2007- 2015 she set up the largest award winning UK multi-disciplinary facial pain service at UCLH, London. Currently working part time at UCLH while setting up a national Trigeminal Neuralgia Institute. Chairperson of Medical Advisory Board and founder Trustee of Trigeminal Neuralgia Association UK (patient support group). She has written five
books, contributed to 27 chapters, written over 180 peer reviewed papers and has been rated as the top expert in trigeminal neuralgia in the world. Lectured as an invited speaker in 100 international
meetings in 30 countries. Turo Nurmikko is a certified Neurologist and Pain Specialist. 1991 he received his PhD (DSurgMedSci) from the University of Tampere, Finland. He established and led the Tampere Pain Clinic Tampere 1983-1994 before moving to work as a Consultant of Relief at the Walton Centre, Liverpool UK until 2015 where he founded and headed a multidisciplinary facial pain clinic 2005-2013. He was Chair of Pain Science at University of Liverpool 2001-2011 and Honorary Professor
2012-2018. He was a founding member of Neuropathic Pain SIG, IASP, and its first Chairman (2002-2005). He held the directorship of Pain Research Institute, Liverpool 2001 - 2018. He has written over
100 peer-reviewed articles and 40 textbook chapters and lectured as an invited speaker in 180 international meetings in 30 countries.