ReviewThe journal of headache and pain2010
Headache, epilepsy and photosensitivity: how are they connected?
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- Frequently asked questions and answers on Visually-Provoked (Photosensitive) epilepsy.Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2025Review
- Resting-state electroencephalography microstates as a marker of photosensitivity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.Brain communications · 2024Article
- Review and Hypothesis: A Potential Common Link Between Glial Cells, Calcium Changes, Modulation of Synaptic Transmission, Spreading Depression, Migraine, and Epilepsy-HFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021Article
- Epilepsy and migraine-Are they comorbidity?Genes & diseases · 2018Review
- Hemiplegic migraine and late-onset photosensitive epileptic seizures.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2016Article
- Seizure precipitants in a community-based epilepsy cohort.Journal of neurology · 2014Article
- Ictal epileptic headache: an old story with courses and appeals.The journal of headache and pain · 2012Review
- Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy presenting as a new daily persistent-like headache.The journal of headache and pain · 2011Article
- Peri-ictal and inter-ictal headache in children and adolescents with idiopathic epilepsy: a multicenter cross-sectional study.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2011Article
- Migralepsy, hemicrania epileptica, post-ictal headache and "ictal epileptic headache": a proposal for terminology and classification revision.The journal of headache and pain · 2011Review
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Abstract
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 to be fully understood in adults or children. The association between headache and epilepsy commonly occurs in all types of epilepsy and not only in occipital epilepsy. Generally, peri-ictal headache is often neglected, regardless of its severity, because patients are more concerned about their seizures. Altered cerebral cortex excitability may be the link between these two conditions and photosensitivity shows this. The physician should bear this association in mind when dealing with epileptic and migraine patients so as to be able to offer such patients an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment; this should be borne in mind when declaring epileptic patients 'seizure free'. To date neither the International Headache Society nor the International League against Epilepsy mention that headache/migraine may, on occasion, be the sole ictal epileptic manifestation. Lastly, studies designed to investigate the triggering role of photosensitivity in both headache and epilepsy are warranted.
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