OBJECTIVE To characterise the clinical features of non-familial migraine with unilateral motor symptoms (MUMS) and compare these features with those of migraine without weakness. METHODS 24 patients with MUMS and 48 matched controls were identified from a tertiary care headache centre. Using a structured interview, the migraine symptoms of both groups were characterised. Results of previously...

Background: Migraine and tension-type headache are primary headache disorders that occur during pregnancy. Most women with migraine improve during pregnancy. Some women have their first attack during pregnancy. Migraine can recur postpartum; it can also begin at that time. Women who have had menstrual migraine and migraine onset at menarche tend to experience no migraine during pregnancy. Not a...

The association between migraine and stroke is still a dilemma for neurologists. Migraine is associated with an increased stroke risk and it is considered an independent risk factor for ischaemic stroke in a particular subgroup of patients. The pathogenesis is still unknown even if several studies report some common biochemical mechanisms between these two diseases. A classification of migraine...

Vestibular migraine is becoming recognised as a distinct clinical entity that accounts for a high proportion of patients with vestibular symptoms. A temporal overlap between vestibular symptoms, such as vertigo and head-movement intolerance, and migraine symptoms, such as headache, photophobia, and phonophobia, is a requisite diagnostic criterion. Physical examination and laboratory testing are...

Migraine is, essentially, an episodic disease. However, characteristics of headache of some episodic migraine change like as tension-type headache and number of headache days also increased, as a result, develop into chronic migraine.However, it is difficult to distinguish chronic migraine and medication oversuse headache. For this reason, and because of the general rule, The international Clas...

Almost all Unani physicians have advocated Nutool therapy in the management of migraine (Shaqiqa), particularly with or without medicated oil liquid, but unfortunately these not evaluated on scientific parameters. Despite fact that, this is practice physician and a large number patients been treated successfully; regimen still requires validation to generalize their popularity acceptability. Pr...

Migraine disorders and the epilepsies have much in common. Both are highly prevalent paroxysmal neurological disorders that have peak incidence prior to adulthood and may be life-long. They are also often co-morbid. Both appear to share important pathogenic mechanisms involving the same genes and electrophysiological events, and they are often responsive to the same medications.1 Both are assoc...

how to cite this article: nejad biglari h, rezayi a, nejad biglari h, alizadeh m, ahmadabadi f. relationship between migraine and abnormal eeg findings in children. iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3): 21-24. objective migraine is a disabling illness that causes absence from school andaffects the quality of life. it has been stated that headache may representan epileptic event. eeg abnormality is a ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess alcohol use problems in patients with migraine and tension-type headache. METHOD We evaluated 81 patients with migraine and 62 patients with tension-type headache. The identification of alcohol consumption problems was carried out with Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). Alcohol use problem was defined as an AUDIT score of 8 or abov...

The headache histories obtained from clinical interviews of 600 patients were analysed by computer to see whether patients could be separated systematically into clinical categories and to see whether sets of symptoms commonly reported together differed in distribution among the categories. The computer classification procedure assigned 537 patients to the same category as their clinical diagno...