Migrainous headache is determined by pathogenetic mechanisms that are also able to affect the peripheral and/or central vestibular system, so that vestibular symptoms may substitute and/or present with headache. We are convinced that there can be many different manifestations of vestibular disorders in migrainous patients, representing true different clinical entities due to their different cha...

TO THE EDITOR: We read the article by Wang and Lewis (2016) with a great interest. In this study, using the axis shift and dumping index, they found that the “residual sensory conflict” correlates with motion sickness susceptibility in patients with vestibular migraine. This could explain the motion intolerance and episodic vertigo that characterize vestibular migraine based on dysfunction of t...

Evidence-based medicine grades scientific research articles according to their structural specification. It represents an evidence value that we can count on for clinical applications. In this review, we evaluate our medical treatment algorithm in peripheral vestibular diseases according to evidence-based medicine rules. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, vestibular paroxysmia, labyrinthitis...

The overlap and interlinkage of dizzy symptoms in patients with psychiatric and vestibular vertigo/dizziness disorders is the subject of an ongoing debate. In a one-year follow up in 68 patients with vestibular vertigo syndromes, the persistency of vertigo and dizziness symptoms was examined and correlated with vestibular parameters and results from a psychiatric evaluation. Patients with vesti...

A significant body of literature exists demonstrating a relationship between migraine disorders and dizziness. In the characterizations of the migraine-associated dizziness, the signs and symptoms show overlap with those characterizing Meniere's disease. There has been literature, beginning with Ménière himself, suggesting a relationship between Ménière's disease and migraine-associated dizzine...

Vestibular migraine (VM) is now the accepted name for vestibular symptoms that are causally related to migraine. The International Headache Society and the International Bárány Society for Neurootology together have developed a consensus document with diagnostic criteria for VM (1), but the existence and the relation to migraine is still disputed by some clinicians and researchers alike. Our re...