Research article summary (published 30 Dec 2002):

Electroencephalography in migraine: a review with focus on quantitative electroencephalography and the migraine vs. epilepsy relationship.

Full Abstract

EEG-studies in migraine in the last decade has contributed modestly to the understanding of headache pathogenesis. Headache patient groups seem to have increased EEG responses to photic stimulation, but a useful biological marker for migraine in single patients has not been found. In future EEG and QEEG studies we recommend to use follow-up designs and record several EEGs across the migraine cycle. It is also important to use a blinded study design in order to avoid selection bias. A clinical EEG should be performed in patients with acute headache attacks when either epilepsy, basilar migraine, migraine with prolonged aura or alternating hemiplegia is suspected. Unequivocal epileptiform abnormalities usually suggest a diagnosis of epilepsy. In children with occipital spike-wave activity the probable diagnosis is childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms (CEOP). The final diagnosis of either an epilepsy syndrome or migraine must be mainly based on a clinical judgement [corrected].

Author information

Author/s: Sand, T (T);

Affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory, Trondheim, Norway. trond.sand(-atsign-)medisin.ntnu.no

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Review

Journal: Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache (Cephalalgia), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-; vol 23 Suppl 1 (issue ) : pp 5-11

Dates: Created 2003/04/17; Completed 2003/06/18; Revised 2008/02/11;

PMID: 12699455, status: MEDLINE (last retrieved date: 2/18/2009)

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Comments and Corrections

ErratumIn: Cephalalgia. 2003 Jul;23(6):483.

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Adult Brain Mapping - methods Child Diagnosis, Differential Electroencephalography

Electroencephalography Epilepsy - diagnosis; physiopathology Humans Migraine Disorders - diagnosis; physiopathology Photic Stimulation

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