migraine is a neurologic disease, which often is associated with a unilateral headache. vestibular abnormalities are common in migraine. vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (vemps) assess otolith function in particular functional integrity of the saccule and the inferior vestibular nerve. we used vemp to evaluate if the migraine headache can affect vemp asymmetry parameters. a total of 25 pat...

BACKGROUND Tinnitus and headache are frequent disorders. Here, we aimed to investigate whether the occurrence of headache among tinnitus patients is purely coincidental or whether tinnitus and headache are pathophysiologically linked. We investigated a large sample of patients with tinnitus and headache to estimate prevalence rates of different headache forms, to determine the relationship betw...

BACKGROUND Both clinical experience and clinical studies suggest a relationship between tinnitus and headache. Here, we aimed to investigate the influence of comorbid headache type and headache laterality on tinnitus characteristics. METHOD The Tinnitus Research Initiative database was screened for patients of the Tinnitus Center of the University Regensburg who reported comorbid headaches. T...

Migraine and tension type headache are the two most common primary headaches. The purpose of this study was to detect differences in clinical characteristics and headache triggers and in a Greek cohort of 51 migraineurs and 12 patients with tension-type headache. (TTH) Migraine patients had a significantly lower age at headache onset and frequency, higher mean visual analogue scale (VAS) and gr...

Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the possible effects of laterality and handedness on higher-order sensory functions and manual dexterity of the elderly. Methods: In this non-experimental cross-sectional study, 58 elderly people aged 60-75 years (35 right-handed) were recruited through a convenience sampling method. Laterality of the selected subjects was examined using the E...

CLINICAL HISTORY A 38-year-old woman reported a history of headache since aged 11 years, occurring about once a month. Triggers included stress and missing a meal, and she described a severe left or right hemicranial throbbing pain with associated nausea, vomiting, photophobia, and phonophobia, but no aura. Attacks lasted up to 3 days. An acetaminophen/aspirin/caffeine combination “dulled” the ...

Although most people who have headache pain do not present with an underlying mass lesion, a large number of patients with brain tumors do report headache (as many as 60% in our institution). The problem for clinicians is that the tumor-headache association is not universal, as evidenced by anecdotal reports of patients with large tumors and increased intracranial pressure, but a complete absen...

OBJECTIVE To present results from the United States (US) Cluster Headache Survey including data on cluster headache demographics, clinical characteristics, suicidality, diagnostic delay, triggers, and personal burden. BACKGROUND There are few large-scale studies looking at cluster headache patients and none from the USA. This manuscript will present data from The US Cluster Headache Survey, t...

objective: in recent years different hypotheses with respect to the formation of cerebral laterality were proposed. some of the researchers claim that cerebral dominance and laterality are determined by genetic factors, just as the case with eye color and blood type. however, another group states that in addition to genetic factors, environmental factors, too, have a remarkable role in hemisphe...