BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Silent ischemic brain lesions frequently occur in migraine with aura and are most often located in cerebellar border zones. This may imply an impairment of cerebellar blood flow autoregulation. This study investigated the characteristics of interictal cerebellar autoregulation in migraine with and without aura. METHODS Thirty-four patients (n=17, migraine without aura; ...

The study presented here is the first detailed nosographic analysis of migraine aura, diagnosed using the criteria of the International Headache Society, in a sufficiently large sample for statistical analysis. Of 4,000 people, 163 had migraine with aura. Sixty-two had attacks of migraine aura with headache as well as migraine aura without headache, and seven had exclusively migraine aura witho...

background: headache is one of the most disturbing symptoms with common neurological signs. variations in optic nerve perfusion quality or retinal microcirculation may end up in ganglion cell damage in patients with migraine. methods: sixty patients diagnosed with migraine and thirty normal individuals were evaluated in groups including migraine with aura, migraine without aura and controls. re...

Migraine is a common clinical disorder, quite disabling and affecting the quality of life in majority of patients. The visual aura is the commonest among all types of aura. Various types of migraine aura described in the literature are photopsia, fortification spectra, scotoma, visual distortion, haemianopia and metamorphsia. The epileptic visual aura differs from aura associated with migraine ...

OBJECTIVE To provide insight into the wide spectrum of migraine during childhood to establish practical and comprehensive treatment strategies. BACKGROUND Although recent studies have confirmed the effect of anti-migraine agents in childhood headaches fulfilling the criteria of migraine without aura, there have been no studies regarding the efficacy of these drugs in childhood migraine withou...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Our aim in this study was to compare headache-free and spontaneous migraine measurements of blood flow velocity and the pulsatility index in the anterior cerebral artery, middle cerebral artery, and posterior cerebral artery. METHODS Thirty-one patients (nine having experienced migraine with aura and 22 migraine without aura) were studied in headache-free periods and du...

Around 15% to one-third of migraineurs experience aura. Aura is a fully reversible focal neurological phenomenon involving visual, sensory, speech, and/or motor symptoms that develops gradually and usually precedes the headache phase. The pivotal role cortical spreading depression (CSD) as mechanism underlying aura has been widely supported by large body studies. diagnosis based on Internationa...

there are several conflicting reports about the eeg of the migraineurs. in this study we report the ictal and interictal eegs of 100 migraineurs, in comparison with control group. the range age for patient and control groups were 9-48 (mean: 26 ± 1.8) and 10-46 (mean: 23 ± 2.1) years respectively. 32% of the patients were less than 14 years old and the remaining 68% were more than 14 years. in ...

In this issue of Cephalalgia, Dr Jakob Moller Hansen and his colleagues report a series of very interesting experiments in which they successfully induced migraine-like attacks in patients with migraine with aura via infusion of calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP). This work echoes similar experiments carried out by the Copenhagen group using the nitric oxide donor, glycerol trinitrate (GTN)...