OBJECTIVE To compare the attitudes and opinions of otologists and neurologists regarding the cause, diagnosis, and management of vestibular migraine. STUDY DESIGN Survey questionnaire. METHODS An 18-question survey designed to elicit opinions about the cause, diagnosis, pathophysiology, and management of migraine and dizziness was mailed to the entire memberships of the American Neurotology...

Atypical features of hemicrania continua (HC), including both visual aura and side shifting, have been reported previously. However, auras and variable unilaterality have never been reported together in HC. We report two patients with side-shifting HC with aura. These patients' symptoms are unilateral headaches, visual aura, autonomic features, throbbing pain, nausea and photo/phonophobia. One ...

Latent class and genetic analyses were used to identify subgroups of migraine sufferers in a community sample of 6,265 Australian twins (55% female) aged 25-36 who had completed an interview based on International Headache Society (IHS) criteria. Consistent with prevalence rates from other population-based studies, 703 (20%) female and 250 (9%) male twins satisfied the IHS criteria for migraine...

This paper presents diagnostic criteria for vestibular migraine, jointly formulated by the Committee for Classification of Vestibular Disorders of the Bárány Society and the Migraine Classification Subcommittee of the International Headache Society (IHS). The classification includes vestibular migraine and probable vestibular migraine. Vestibular migraine will appear in an appendix of the third...

OBJECTIVE To survey the prevalence and risk factors for headache in a population of elite professional Australian footballers. METHODS A prospective questionnaire based survey was performed on elite Australian footballers participating in a national competition. The survey was designed to assess the prevalence and risk factors for headache using standardised International Headache Society (HI...

OBJECTIVE A population-based survey was conducted in 1999 to describe the patterns of migraine diagnosis and medication use in a representative sample of the US population and to compare results with a methodologically identical study conducted 10 years earlier. METHODS A survey mailed to a panel of 20 000 US households identified 3577 individuals with severe headache meeting a case definitio...

All patients who consulted with headache as the main clinical problem were included in the study. Each patient's headache was diagnosed using a data collection form dur­ ing the course of routine consultation. The data collec­ tion form was a computer program [Headache Assess­ ment Questionnaire (HAQ)] developed by me for use in my practice. HAQ consists of 47 questions each of which has a yes ...

Migraine is one of the most prevalent types of headache, which imposes a substantial burden on society as measured by direct and indirect costs. In the present work we review the obstacles to carrying out migraine epidemiological studies. Knowledge of the epidemiology of migraine has expanded because of the recent proliferation of large scale population-based studies using standardized case def...

Population-based epidemiological studies about the prevalence of chronic migraine using the 2004 International Headache Society (IHS) classification definition are rare. We analysed the data of the Deutsche Migräne und Kopfschmerz Gesellschaft headache study, which included 7417 adults in three regions of Germany, with respect to their headache. Additionally, body mass index, alcohol consumptio...

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...