BACKGROUND Linear headache (LH) has recently been described as a paroxysmal or continuous head pain restricted in a linear trajectory of 5-10 mm in width, linking one endpoint in occipital or occipitocervical region with another endpoint in ipsilateral nasion or forehead region. The sagittal line-shaped pain area of LH is close and parallel to a sagittal venous sinus, the superior sagittal sinu...

In adults, migraine with aura is considered to be a risk factor for stroke, especially when other risk factors exist. However, the relationship between migraine with aura and risk of cerebral infarct in children has not been well established and requires further study. We describe four young patients who suffered from migraine with aura and focal neurological deficits. All four patients had mig...

background: the prevalence of migraine headaches significantly increased in girls after menarche. this indicated that there is a closely relation between hormonal changes especially the estrogen level with migraine headaches. objectives: the aim of this work was to determine the frequency of migraine and its associated factors in medical students affected with premenstrual syndrome (pms). mater...

INTRODUCTION Typical aura without headache (TAWH), which has been rarely reported both at home and abroad, is a rare type of migraine with aura. CASE PRESENTATION This is a report on a 64-year-old Chinese migraineur who has had recurrent typical visual aura without headache attacks for more than 30 years, and has been misdiagnosed as having had transient ischemic attacks (TIA) many times. He ...

BACKGROUND It was previously shown that the MTHFR gene polymorphism correlated with an increased risk of migraine, particularly migraine with aura. The substitution of cytosine for thymine at the position 677 of the MTHFR gene leads to formation of the thermolabile form of the protein and development of hyperhomocysteinemia, which increases the probability of migraine. The purpose of this study...

classification system for headache by the International Headache Society should be considered relevant to the practice of psychiatrists and other mental health specialists (Headache Classification Subcommittee of the International Headache Society, 2004). Migraine is a chronic paroxysmal disorder characterised by stereotypical attacks of headache, focal neurological symptoms or a combination of...

OBJECTIVE The pathophysiology of migraine with aura is thought to be related to cortical spreading depression and cortical hypersensitivity, in which inhibitory interneurons may play a role. Persistent migraine aura (PMA) without infarction is defined as auras that last longer than 1 week in the absence of infarction. We describe a case of persistent aura with a small occipital cortical infarct...

Objectives At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to: 1. Identify the typical features of migraine aura. 2. Describe the pathophysiologic mechanisms behind migraine aura. 3. Correlate the physiology of cortical spreading depression to the clinical phenomena of migraine aura. 1. Migraine aura is associated with which of the following conditions: a. Cortical spreading depr...

BACKGROUND Migraine with aura (MA) is one of the clinical hallmarks of CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy), a small vessel disease of the brain caused by mutations in the NOTCH3 gene, but its exact mechanisms are unknown. OBJECTIVES To describe the patterns of MA in CADASIL and to compare brain magnetic resonance signal abnormal...

..................................................................................................................... 9 REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE .............................................................................. 10 1. CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MIGRAINE AND EPISODIC ATAXIA TYPE 2 ........................... 10 1.1. Migraine with and without aura .......................................