S. Stramaglia, D. Marinazzo, M. Pellicoro, and M. de Tommaso Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Bari and INFN, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Data Analysis, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 1, B-9000 Gent, Belgium Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e Psichiatriche, Universitá degli Studi di Bari, Piazza Giulio Ce...

In older patients with migraine, the distinction between a migrainous aura and a transient ischemic episode can be difficult, as this case illustrates.

This paper examines the importance of medical electricity in Georgian England, the contexts and rationale for the use of electrical treatments, and the relationship between medical electricity and natural philosophy. It focuses upon the application of medical electricity by thephysician andnatural philosopherErasmusDarwin, and the role of electricity in his philosophy and psychophysiology. The ...

Migraine with aura is prevalent in high-altitude populations suggesting an association between migraine aura and hypoxia. We investigated whether experimental hypoxia triggers migraine and aura attacks in patients suffering from migraine with aura. We also investigated the metabolic and vascular response to hypoxia. In a randomized double-blind crossover study design, 15 migraine with aura pati...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether acute migraine treatment outcome is different in migraine with aura compared with migraine without aura. METHODS We examined pooled outcome data for sumatriptan treatment of migraine with and without aura from the sumatriptan/naratriptan aggregate patient database. We also examined similar outcome data for inhaled dihydroergotamine (DHE) from a single, large ran...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Five single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs4379368, rs10504861, rs10915437, rs12134493 and rs13208321) were recently identified in a Western population with migraine. These migraine-associated SNPs have not been evaluated in a Han Chinese population. This study investigated the associations of specific SNPs with migraine in a Han population. METHODS This was a case-...

INTRODUCTION Persistent migraine aura without headache is an extremely rare condition. The International Headache Society defines various subtypes of migraines, including "persistent migraine aura without infarction" and "typical aura without headache." CASE PRESENTATION We describe the case of a 21-year-old Asian woman with a history of migraine without aura who had (as her first aura episod...

Persistent aura without infarction, a rare migraine disorder, is defined by aura symptoms that persist for >1 week without radiological evidence of cerebral infarction. To unveil its pathophysiological mechanisms, this study used magnetoencephalography to characterize the visual cortex excitability in persistent aura by comparison with episodic and chronic migraine. We recruited six patients wi...

BACKGROUND Right to left shunting, usually caused by a patent foramen ovale (PFO), is associated with migraine and visual aura. It is unknown if patients who present with visual aura without headache behave similarly to those experiencing typical migraine headache with aura. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of right to left shunting in patients who present with migraine au...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the current evidence on the association between migraine, including aura status, and cervical artery dissection. METHODS We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies investigating the association between migraine or migraine subtypes (e.g. migraine with aura) and cervical artery dissection published through October 2010. RESULTS We identified five cas...