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...

Few data are available on the applicability of both the criteria proposed by Silberstein and Lipton (S-L) and the International Classification of Headache Disorders-II (ICHD-II) in the classification of children and adolescents with chronic daily headache (CDH). The International Headache Society recently added revised criteria (ICHD-IIR) for chronic migraine to its Appendix. We retrospectively...

AIM To suggest diagnostic combinations of symptoms for migraine and tension type headache (TTH), and for differentiation of overlapping headache (classified as either migraine or TTH) through evaluation of the diagnostic value of combinations of characteristics included in the International Headache Society diagnostic criteria for migraine and TTH in children and adolescents. PATIENTS AND MET...

background: the correlation of metabolic syndrome and migraine headache was evaluated in some previous studies. however there is no study that compared the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the patients with and without migraine. control of coincidental factors such as metabolic syndrome reduces therapeutic resistance in migrainous patients. the aim of this study was to compare prevalence of ...

Headache disorders are highly prevalent throughout the world, and have a female predominance. More than 80% of women in the reproductive age group experience headache at some point, making it a common occurrence in pregnancy.1 The International Headache Society broadly categorizes headaches as primary or secondary. As is the case in the non-pregnant population, primary headaches (such as migrai...

Migraine is a paroxysmal disorder with accompanying neurological phenomenon. Oculomotor dysfunction is one of them. A prospective study was done to investigate the prevalence and features of oculomotor dysfunction in migraineurs. A questionnaire based on “International headache society” criteria were distributed among the persons coming with chief complaints of headache. Among 2200 persons, 200...

Headache is one of the most common medical complaints of humankind that occurs in all age groups and is the seventh leading reason for medical office visits. The most common cause of chronic headache is migraine that affects an estimated 10-15% of the population. However, many drugs are useful for treatment of headache, current conventional medications have many side effects. Therapeutic trials...

Science writer, historian and administrator J.G. Crowther (1899-1983) had an uneasy relationship with the BBC during the 1920s and 1930s, and was regarded with suspicion by the British security services because of his left politics. Nevertheless the Second World War saw him working for 'establishment' institutions. He was closely associated with the BBC's Overseas Service and employed by the Br...

Sports related concussion has quickly become the most widely publicized neurological disorder with estimates ranging from 1.6 to 3.8 million affected individuals annually. The cervical spine plays a major role in concussion biomechanics. The cervical spine has also been implicated as playing a major role in triggering and maintaining migraine headache 1, 2 Patients with migraine especially chro...

Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (CPH) is a rare primary headache syndrome, which is classified along with cluster headache and short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing as a trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia (TACs). Hemicrania continua (HC) was previously classified as one of the TACs, but in the recent second classification of the International...