Neurology

People who seek relief from head and face pain, including migraine, benefit from the expertise of the Department of Neurology specialty group for headache. Our headache specialists have extensive experience and help thousands of people each year.

Your neurologist typically coordinates your testing and pinpoints the cause of your pain, bringing together a multispecialty team as needed. Your care might involve experts in brain, spine and nervous system surgery (neurosurgeons), brain imaging (neuroradiology), dental specialties, or others as needed. These experts have access to advanced diagnostic and treatment techniques and tools, including stereotactic radiosurgery, Gamma Knife radiosurgery and microvascular decompression.

Conditions and symptoms

• Benign intracranial hypertension
• Chronic daily headache
• Cluster headache
• Complicated migraine
• Glossopharyngeal neuralgia
• Hemicrania continua
• Hypnic headache
• Ice pick pain headache
• Migraine
• Migraine aura without headache
• Migraine with aura
• Migraine without aura
• Pseudotumor cerebri
• Tension headache
• Trigeminal neuralgia

Research advances that improve clinical care

Our internationally recognized physician-scientists and other researchers study the causes of headache and face pain and new approaches to preventing and treating them. Learn more about headache research.

Nationally recognized expertise

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, rank among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings. Mayo Clinic Children's Center in Rochester is ranked the No. 1 hospital in Minnesota, and the five-state region of Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2024-2025 "Best Children's Hospitals" rankings.

Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other hospital and has been recognized as an Honor Roll member according to the U.S. News & World Report's 2024-2025 "Best Hospitals" rankings.