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Reply to: “the complex interrelations between two paroxysmal disorders: headache and epilepsy”
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Cognitive function in preschool children with sleep-disordered breathing
The purposes of this study were to assess cognitive functions in preschool children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and to compare them with matched control children.
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Headache and ADHD in Pediatric Age: Possible Physiopathological Links
Primary headache and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are common disorders in children and adolescences, frequently associated to severe cognitive, emotional, and behavioral impairments. They bo...
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Genetic and forensic implications in epilepsy and cardiac arrhythmias: a case series
Epilepsy affects approximately 3 % of the world’s population, and sudden death is a significant cause of death in this population. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) accounts for up to 17 % of all the...
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Weight Regain after Discontinuation of Topiramate Treatment in Patients with Migraine: a Prospective Observational Study
To monitor weight regain after therapy discontinuation in patients with migraine experiencing weight loss during topiramate (TPM) treatment.
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Open AccessClinical guidelines in pediatric headache: evaluation of quality using the AGREE II instrument
The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE II) tool is a validated questionnaire used to assess the methodological quality of clinical guidelines (CGs). We used the AGREE II tool to assess ...
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Open AccessQuality of clinical guidelines in pediatric headache
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Is it migralepsy? No evidence yet
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From migralepsy to ictal epileptic headache: the story so far
In the last few years several cases of headache as sole manifestation of an epileptic seizure have been reported and the term “ictal epileptic headache” has been recently proposed to identify an EEG-recorded e...
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Open AccessMigraine and periodic limb movement disorders in sleep in children: a preliminary case–control study
The relationships between sleep and headaches are complex and manifold. About the variety of phenomena that can disrupt the sleep macrostructure and can impact its restorative function, the periodic limb movem...
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Open AccessFour-year follow-up study in a NF1 Boy with a focal pontine hamartoma
Neurofibromatosis is a collective name for a group of genetic conditions in which benign tumours affect the nervous system. Type 1 is caused by a genetic mutation in the NF1 gene (OMIM 613113) and symptoms can...
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Benign epilepsy of childhood with centro-temporal spikes (BECTS) versus migraine: a neuropsychological assessment
Epilepsy and migraine frequently show a clinical overlap. An increase in number of electroencephalographic abnormalities, such as centro-temporal spikes (CTS), may be observed in patients suffering from migrai...
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Open AccessIctal epileptic headache: an old story with courses and appeals
The term “ictal epileptic headache” has been recently proposed to classify the clinical picture in which headache is the isolated ictal symptom of a seizure. There is emerging evidence from both basic and clin...
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Open Access"Electro-clinical syndromes" with onset in paediatric age: the highlights of the clinical-EEG, genetic and therapeutic advances
The genetic causes underlying epilepsy remain largely unknown, and the impact of available genetic data on the nosology of epilepsy is still limited. Thus, at present, classification of epileptic disorders sho...
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Open Access“Comorbidity” between epilepsy and headache/migraine: the other side of the same coin!
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Peri-ictal and inter-ictal headache in children and adolescents with idiopathic epilepsy: a multicenter cross-sectional study
Headache in epileptic population ranges from 8% to 15%. The aim of this paper was to study the clinical and temporal characteristics of primary headache comorbidity in idiopathic epileptic children.
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Fiber tractography assessment in double cortex syndrome
Subcortical band heterotopia (SBH) or double cortex syndrome is a malformation of cortical development that may be related to intractable epilepsy and severe mental retardation or to mild epilepsy and slight m...
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Open AccessMigralepsy, hemicrania epileptica, post-ictal headache and “ictal epileptic headache”: a proposal for terminology and classification revision
Despite the fact that migraine and epilepsy are among the commoner brain diseases and that comorbidity of these conditions is well known, only few reports of migralepsy and hemicrania epileptica (HE) have been...
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Developmental anomalies of the medial septal area: possible implication for limbic epileptogenesis
The maldevelopment of the midline structures is connected with neurologic disorders. The cavum septum pellucidum (CSP) exists in the fetal period, then it is re-absorbed. The presence of unfused leaflets/forni...
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Open AccessHeadache, epilepsy and photosensitivity: how are they connected?
Although headache and epilepsy have often been associated, the precise electroclinical and pathophysiological interaction between these disorders and in particular its relations with photosensitivity is as yet...
