Start learning about headaches with this easy-to-understand medical encyclopedia article. Find out about causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.

Video and transcript describe factors that help doctors determine the type and treatment of headaches including location, frequency and length of time.

Pain on the top of the head can indicate several different types of headache. Read about these types to better understand what might be happening.

Where a headache hurts can indicate what type of headache it is. This interactive resource will help you analyze your symptoms.

Both migraine and tension headaches can cause pain on the top of the head. Learn about these common headache types, and how to tell the difference between them.

A headache's location, such as on top of the head, can indicate its type. Read about the symptoms, including head location, of over 30 headache types.

If you have pain on top of the head, and wonder what type of headache it might be, take this quiz to find out.

Before visiting the doctor for a headache on the top of the head, read this article to prepare yourself to answer your doctor's questions, and to find a few to ask in return.

Inflammation of the sinuses might cause head and facial pain and sphenoid sinusitis can cause a headache on top of the head. Learn more here.

The brain and skull don't actually contain any nerves, so what causes headache pain on top of the head and elsewhere? Find out in this interesting article.

According to this article, muscle pain and tension could lead to head pain. Find out how your muscles might be at the root of the headache on top of your head.