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Migraine and epilepsy: a focus on overlapping clinical, pathophysiological, molecular, and therapeutic aspects.
Current pain and headache reports - 1 Aug 2010
Bianchin Marino Muxfeldt, Londero Renata Gomes, Lima José Eduardo, Bigal Marcelo Eduardo
Abstract excerpt
The association of epilepsy and migraine has been long recognized. Migraine and epilepsy are both chronic disorders with episodic attacks. Furthermore, headache may be a premonitory or postdromic symptom of seizures, and migraine headaches may cause seizures per se (migralepsy). Migraine and epilepsy are comorbid, sharing pathophysiological mechanisms and common clinical features. Several recent studies...
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