Both migraine and dizziness/vertigo rank among the most common complaints in the general population. Worldwide, the lifetime prevalence of migraine is about 14%. Approximately 20% to 30% of the general population are affected by dizziness and vertigo. Given the high prevalence of vertigo and migraine in the general population it is not surprising that many patients suffer from both symptoms. No...

Migraine attacks alter various molecules that might be related to the pathophysiology of migraine, such as serotonin, calcitonin gene-related peptide, and nitric oxide. The underlying pathophysiology of migraine is as yet unclear. We explored key proteins related to the pathogenesis of migraine here. Serum was collected from two patients with migraine with aura (MA) and seven patients with migr...

BACKGROUND People who have a disease often experience stigma, a socially and culturally embedded process through which individuals experience stereotyping, devaluation, and discrimination. Stigma has great impact on quality of life, behavior, and life chances. We do not know whether or not migraine is stigmatizing. METHODS We studied 123 episodic migraine patients, 123 chronic migraine patien...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this systematic review with meta-analysis is to determine the diagnostic accuracy of the identification of migraine (ID Migraine) as a decision rule for identifying patients with migraine. BACKGROUND The ID Migraine screening tool is designed to identify patients with migraine in primary care settings. Several studies have validated the ID Migraine across various clin...

OBJECTIVE  To evaluate whether patients with migraine are at increased risk of perioperative ischemic stroke and whether this may lead to an increased hospital readmission rate. DESIGN  Prospective hospital registry study. SETTING  Massachusetts General Hospital and two satellite campuses between January 2007 and August 2014. PARTICIPANTS  124 558 surgical patients (mean age 52.6 years; 5...

Migraine is amongst the oldest of diseases known to mankind. Migraine is a heterogenous entity, usually characterised by periodic attacks of headache on one or both sides of the head. These may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, increased sensitivity of the eyes to light (photophobia), increased sensitivity to sound (phonophobia), dizziness, blurred vision, cognitive disturbances, and other sy...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the current evidence on the association between migraine, including aura status, and cervical artery dissection. METHODS We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies investigating the association between migraine or migraine subtypes (e.g. migraine with aura) and cervical artery dissection published through October 2010. RESULTS We identified five cas...

PURPOSE Clinical observations suggest that psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES) patients often have severe migraine, more severe than epilepsy patients. Investigations into migraine characteristics in patients with PNES are lacking. In this study we tested the hypothesis that, compared to epilepsy patients, PNES patients have more severe migraine, with more frequent and longer duration atta...

background: the sporadic type of hemiplegic migraine (hm) is sometimes observed among migrainous patients (mp) and mimics ischemic strokes. methods: in an evaluation of two-hundred consecutive adult mp in the mackenzie headache clinic, canada during 2004 , 9% of the patients met the criteria established by the international headache society for sporadic hm. female to male sex ratio, family hist...

headache is a common symptom that constitutes a major health problem to all countries in the world. this study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of migraine and tension -type headaches(tth), its associated occupational risk factors among shiraz hospitals staffs, and to report on clinical characteristics of migraine and tth with using the international headache society (ihs) diagnosis cri...