objective this study was conducted to evaluate the preventive effect of lamotringine on migraine aura and migraine attacks in children, afflicted with classic migraine. material & methods conducted between october 2005 and april 2008 in the neurology clinic of kashani hospital,  shahrekord, this study was a clinical trial, aimed at evaluating the prophylactic effects of lamotringine administere...

OBJECTIVE To identify the main characteristics of classic migraine, with specific regard to diagnostic criteria for manual therapy practitioners, including chiropractors and osteopaths. METHOD Ten case studies on migraine were reviewed for the symptoms and clinical features. RESULTS The majority of cases reviewed as classic migraines were in reality not correct diagnoses in accordance with ...

By means of magnetic resonance imaging we investigated a total of 45 patients suffering from classic migraine; 25 patients had been treated in our department for classic migraine over the past 2 years (group A), and 20 other patients investigated between 1976 and 1984 were reexamined for this study (group B). Thirty-two age- and roughly sex-matched healthy volunteers underwent magnetic resonanc...

Although platelet activation is known to occur during migraine attacks, the cause-effect relationship remains to be determined. This problem was approached by studying the possible occurrence of platelet activation in vivo in headache-free periods of subjects affected by common or classic migraine and, subsequently, by verifying the possibility of its pharmacological control through administrat...

Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was measured as gray matter blood flow using the 133Xe inhalation technique in 50 pain-free headache patients: Eight patients having classic migraine with normal computed tomograms were matched to patients having common migraine and to normal controls. Interictal rCBF was determined at least 6 days after the last migraine attack and more than 24 hours before ...

Beta-blocking drugs that prevent cranial vasodilatation are potentially valuable in the prophylaxis of migraine. Forty-nine patients with either classic or common migraine were treated with propranolol 160 mg/day for an average of six months. The first 30 of the patients to respond well to this treatment then participated in a double-blind cross-over trial with a placebo and propranolol. The me...

Background: Visual evoked potential (VEP) is regarded as a useful, reliable and non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of lesions in the optic pathway.  This technique was used to investigate visual function in migraine.   Materials and Methods: 53 migraine patients (27 migraine cases with aura and 26 common migraine cases) and 55 controls were prospectively enrolled in this study.  Visual ev...

background: visual evoked potential (vep) is regarded as a useful, reliable and non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of lesions in the optic pathway.  this technique was used to investigate visual function in migraine.    materials and methods: 53 migraine patients (27 migraine cases with aura and 26 common migraine cases) and 55 controls were prospectively enrolled in this study.  visual e...

There is clinical and pharmacological evidence of the existence of sympathetic dysfunction in migraine. Adrenaline and noradrenaline concentrations were determined in plasma and CSF of patients during attacks of common or classic migraine, comparing them with controls suffering from stress. Plasma noradrenaline levels were significantly lower in the patients with common migraine than in control...