ReviewThe journal of headache and pain2012
Ictal epileptic headache: an old story with courses and appeals.
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- Clinical Differentiation of Self-Limited Epilepsy With Autonomic Seizures (Panayiotopoulos Syndrome) and Childhood Migraine.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2026Article
- Ictal Headache: A Case Report.Cureus · 2025Article
- Epilepsy and migraine: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
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- Exploration of epileptic networks in temporal lobe encephaloceles with stereotactic EEG: Electroclinical characteristics and surgical outcomes.Epilepsia open · 2024Article
- Migraine - a borderland disease to epilepsy: near it but not of it.The journal of headache and pain · 2024Review
- The Role of ASIC1a in Epilepsy: A Potential Therapeutic Target.Current neuropharmacology · 2021Review
- Pathophysiological Bases of Comorbidity in Migraine.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
- Case Report: Migralepsy: The Two-Faced Janus of Neurology.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Ictal Epileptic Headache: When Terminology Is Not a Moot Question.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Review
- Reply to: "the complex interrelations between two paroxysmal disorders: headache and epilepsy".Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2017Article
- Headache and Epilepsy.Journal of epilepsy research · 2017Review
- Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory in the Later Life.Journal of epilepsy research · 2016Article
- Headache and ADHD in Pediatric Age: Possible Physiopathological Links.Current pain and headache reports · 2015Review
- Headache in epilepsy: prevalence and clinical features.The journal of headache and pain · 2015Article
- Ictal epileptic headache revealing non convulsive status epilepticus in a case of eyelid myoclonia with absences.The journal of headache and pain · 2015Article
- High prevalence of headaches in patients with epilepsy.The journal of headache and pain · 2014Article
- Is it migralepsy? No evidence yet.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2013Article
- Migraine, stroke and epilepsy: underlying and interrelated causes, diagnosis and treatment.Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine · 2013Article
- Cranial Autonomic Symptoms in Migraine: An Observational Study.Annals of Indian Academy of NeurologyArticle
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Abstract
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 clinical neurosciences that cortical spreading depression and an epileptic focus may facilitate each other, although with a different degree of efficiency. This review address the long history which lead to the 'migralepsy' concept to the new emerging pathophysiological aspects, and clinical and electroencephalography evidences of ictal epileptic headache. Here, we review and discuss the common physiopathology mechanisms and the historical aspects underlying the link between headache and epilepsy. Either experimental or clinical measures are required to better understand this latter relationship: the development of animal models, molecular studies defining more precise genotype/phenotype correlations as well as multicenter clinical studies with revision of clinical criteria for headache-/epilepsy-related disorders represent the start of future research. Therefore, the definition of ictal epileptic headache should be used to classify the rare events in which headache is the only manifestation of a seizure. Finally, using our recently published criteria, we will be able to clarify if ictal epileptic headache represents an underestimated phenomenon or not.
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