index not recognized as chapter

Question

I'm using a text using book class. Everything is fine, apart from the fact that the index isn't recognized as a chapter. Using

\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind} 

I'm still able to produce an entry "Index" in the ToC, but the heading in the index are the same as in the previous section of the book. In other words, LaTeX doesn't seem to recognize the index as such. Is there anything I can do, beside modifying the headings manually?

Answer 1

Using

\cleardoublepage
\markboth{Index}{Index}

immediately before your setting of the Index should update the headers Index rather than that of what preceded the Index chapter/section.