What are cluster headaches - symptoms, causes, and treatment?

Cluster headaches, also known as Horton's headache or cluster headache, are severe bouts of head pain, where the pain is often located behind or around one eye.

Horton's headache is a relatively rare neurological condition characterized by highly painful, unilateral headache attacks. For most people, these attacks occur in clusters, hence the name.

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