ArticleThe journal of headache and pain2014
High prevalence of headaches in patients with epilepsy.
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- Association between migraine and epilepsy: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Pooled it
- The epidemiology of headaches among patients with epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The journal of headache and pain · 2020Pooled it
- Clinical characteristics of headache related to epilepsy: experience from a tertiary epilepsy center.BMC neurology · 2025Article
- Incidence, Characteristics, and Risk Factors of Post-Radiosurgery Headaches: A Prospective Observational Study.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Observational
- Epilepsy and migraine: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Structural brain characteristics of epilepsy patients with comorbid migraine without aura.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A cross-sectional, multicenter survey of the prevalence and influencing factors for migraine in epilepsy.Epilepsia open · 2024Article
- Diagnosis of comorbid migraine without aura in patients with idiopathic/genetic epilepsy based on the gray zone approach to the International Classification of Headache Disorders 3 criteria.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Headache in people with epilepsy.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2021Review
- Headaches Associated with Seizure: A Prospective Comparative Cohort Study.Noro psikiyatri arsivi · 2021Article
- Decreased Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Periaqueductal Gray in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Comorbid With Migraine.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Pathophysiological Bases of Comorbidity in Migraine.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
- Headache in epilepsy: A prospective observational study.Epilepsia open · 2019Article
- The comorbidity of headaches in pediatric epilepsy patients: How common and what types?Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) · 2019Article
- Association between epilepsy and headache.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2018Article
- 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 · 2017Review
- Analysis of nocebo effects of antiepileptic drugs across different conditions.Journal of neurology · 2016Review
- Headache in epilepsy: prevalence and clinical features.The journal of headache and pain · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo examine the association between headaches and epilepsy.
methodsConsecutive adult epileptic patients who went to the outpatient clinic of the Epilepsy Center of PLA General Hospital between February 01, 2012, and May 10, 2013, were recruited into this study. A total of 1109 patients with epilepsy completed a questionnaire regarding headaches.
resultsOverall, 60.1% of the patients (male: 57.2%; female: 63.8%) reported headaches within the last year. The age-weighted prevalence of interictal migraine was 11.7% (male 8.9%, female 15.3%), which is higher than that reported in a large population-based study (8.5%, male 5.4%, female 11.6%) using the same screening questions. The prevalence of postictal headaches was 34.1% (males 32.7%, females 35.2%), and the presence of preictal headaches was 4.5% (males 4.3%, females 5.2%). The prevalence of headache yesterday in the general population was 4.8% (male 3.0%, female 6.6%). Thus, the prevalence of headaches, including migraine, is higher in epileptic patients in China.
conclusionsThe high prevalence of postictal headaches confirms the frequent triggering of a headache by a seizure. A much lower frequency of preictal headaches, a condition in which the real triggering effect of the headache on the seizure might be difficult to prove.
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