BACKGROUND Synesthesia is, as visual migraine aura, a common and fascinating perceptual phenomenon. Here we present a unique case with synesthesias exclusively during visual migraine auras. CASE PRESENTATION A 40-year-old woman with a cyclic mood disorder had suffered from migraine with visual aura for several years. On several occasions she had experienced "mixing of senses" during the aura ...

Neurologic symptoms are a prominent and often disturbing component of the migraine syndrome in many patients. Collectively termed "aura," migraine-related neurologic symptoms include visual, sensory, language, and motor disturbance. They occur in about one quarter of migraine patients, are classically transient, and are thought to occur as the result of cortical phenomena. Recently, motor sympt...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between migraine and migraine aura status with risk of haemorrhagic stroke. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Women's Health Study, United States. PARTICIPANTS 27,860 women aged >or=45 who were free from stroke or other major disease at baseline and had provided information on self reported migraine, aura status, and lipid values. MAIN OUTCOM...

A relationship between migraine with aura and the presence of right-to-left shunts has been reported in two studies. Right-to-left shunts are also associated with some forms of decompression illness. While conducting research in divers with decompression illness, it was our impression that divers with a large shunt often had a history of migraine with aura in everyday life and after dives. Ther...

Migraine is a common disabling disorder characterized by recurrent headaches and at times non-painful episodic phenomena associated with a variety of neurological manifestations. It ranks among the top 20 causes of disability worldwide [1]. It therefore has a substantial impact on individuals as well as on society. A community based study on headaches in Malaysia showed the prevalence of migrai...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between a lifetime history of migraines and other headaches with and without aura and Rose angina and coronary heart disease (CHD). METHODS Participants were 12,409 African American and white men and women from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, categorized by their lifetime history of headaches lasting > or =4 hours (migraine with aura, migrai...

In adults, migraine with aura is considered to be a risk factor for stroke, especially when other risk factors exist. However, the relationship between migraine with aura and risk of cerebral infarct in children has not been well established and requires further study. We describe four young patients who suffered from migraine with aura and focal neurological deficits. All four patients had mig...

Previous studies have provided evidence of structural and task-related functional changes in the brains of patients with migraine without aura. Resting-state brain activity in patients with migraine provides clues to the pathophysiology of the disease. However, few studies have focused on the resting-state abnormalities in patients with migraine without aura. In the current study, we employed a...

Objectives At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to: 1. Identify the typical features of migraine aura. 2. Describe the pathophysiologic mechanisms behind migraine aura. 3. Correlate the physiology of cortical spreading depression to the clinical phenomena of migraine aura. 1. Migraine aura is associated with which of the following conditions: a. Cortical spreading depr...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between migraine and cognitive decline among women. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Women's Health Study, United States. PARTICIPANTS 6349 women aged 65 or older enrolled in the Women's Health Study who provided information about migraine status at baseline and participated in cognitive testing during follow-up. Participants were classified i...