The association between epilepsy and headache remains controversial. Among the three forms of epilepsy-related headaches (preictal, ictal, and postictal), ictal headache is the rarest and the least understood. Ictal headache, termed hemicrania epileptica in the International Classification of Headache Disorders, Second Edition (ICHD-II, 2004), was defined as a type of headache lasting seconds t...

PURPOSE To investigate the frequency and patterns of headache in a well-defined and homogeneous group of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS) patients. METHODS One hundred consecutive MTLE-HS patients under comprehensive presurgical evaluation were evaluated from May 2009 to April 2010. A standardized questionnaire was applied according to the criteria of the Int...

This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of migraine and tension-type headaches among Shiraz primary schools teachers and to provide an epidemiologic model for them. A random sample of 538 teachers, constituting a 10% sample of the primary schools teachers’ population, was evaluated on the basis of the diagnostic criteria of the International Headache Society (IHS) as well as clinica...

ABSTRACT In this opinion paper, the authors discuss historical and etymological aspects of term “migrânea” refute most common criticisms regarding its adoption by Brazilian Headache Society in official translation International Classification Disorders.

All patients who consulted with headache as the main clinical problem were included in the study. Each patient's headache was diagnosed using a data collection form dur­ ing the course of routine consultation. The data collec­ tion form was a computer program [Headache Assess­ ment Questionnaire (HAQ)] developed by me for use in my practice. HAQ consists of 47 questions each of which has a yes ...

The onset of post-traumatic headache (PTC) occurs in the first seven days after trauma, according to the International Headache Society (IHS) classification. The objective of this study was to evaluate the several forms of headache that appear after mild head injury (HI) and time interval between the HI and the onset of pain. We evaluated 41 patients with diagnosis of mild HI following the IHS ...

INTRODUCTION Persistent migraine aura without headache is an extremely rare condition. The International Headache Society defines various subtypes of migraines, including "persistent migraine aura without infarction" and "typical aura without headache." CASE PRESENTATION We describe the case of a 21-year-old Asian woman with a history of migraine without aura who had (as her first aura episod...

Chronic daily headache, defined as headache on 15 days or more per month for more than three months, is covered generally in another section of this supplement. However, because the syndrome of “new daily persistent headache” (NDPH) is so clinically distinct (table 1), and has an interesting range of secondary possibilities that are curable, we have elected to highlight the problem here. This i...

Hypnic headache is a rare condition first described by Raskin in 1988. This headache is not included in the first edition of the International Headache Society classification (IHC 1st Edition). We describe eight new Italian hypnic headache cases and consider our findings in the light of literature data. Our cases do not completely fulfil the diagnostic criteria for the syndrome proposed in 1997...