ArticleHeadache2020
Patients With Vestibular Migraine are More Likely to Have Occipital Headaches than those With Migraine Without Vestibular Symptoms.
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- Clinical Heterogeneity in Vestibular Migraine Diagnosed Using Bárány Society Criteria: Differences According to Caloric-Test-Based Evidence of Peripheral Vestibular Dysfunction.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2026Article
- Clinical Features of Migraine, Vestibular Migraine, and Tension-Type Headache and Their Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential Study.Journal of clinical medicine research · 2025Article
- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for vestibular migraine in women of reproductive age: a retrospective propensity score-matched study.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Focused Update on Migraine and Vertigo Comorbidity.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- Presence of Spontaneous Nystagmus, Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, and Tumarkin Fall in Patients With Primary Headache and Their Responses to Caloric and Video Head Impulse Tests.Journal of clinical medicine research · 2024Article
- Vestibular Migraine.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2022Review
- [Osmophobia and vestibular migraine]Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina) · 2022Article
- Update on diagnosis and differential diagnosis of vestibular migraine.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022Review
- Involvement of the cerebellum in migraine.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Review
- Cerebro-Cerebellar Networks in Migraine Symptoms and Headache.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether patients with vestibular migraine are more likely to suffer from an occipital headache than patients with migraine without vestibular symptoms.
backgroundVestibular migraine is an underdiagnosed disorder in which migraine is associated with vestibular symptoms. Anatomical evidence and symptomatology hint at the involvement of brain structures in the posterior fossa (back of the head location). We hypothesized that vestibular migraine patients are more likely than migraineurs without vestibular symptoms to experience headaches located in the back of the head, that is, occipital headaches.
methodsA retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics. Chart analysis of 169 patients was performed. The primary outcome was the location of the headache in vestibular migraine patients and migraineurs without vestibular symptoms. The secondary outcomes included the association of vestibular migraine with gender, age at onset of headache, age at onset of vestibular symptoms (such as vertigo, head motion-induced dizziness), aura, motion sickness, other associated symptoms, family history of headaches, and family history of motion sickness.
resultsIn vestibular migraine group, 45/103 (44%) had occipital location for their headaches vs 12/66 (18%) in migraine patients without vestibular symptoms, for an odd's ratio of 3.5 (95% CI = 1.7-7.2, P < .001). Additionally, the age at onset of headache was greater in the vestibular migraine group (28 ± 12 vs 18 ± 9 years, P < .001) and motion sickness was more common (41/98 (42%) in the vestibular migraine group, 1/64 (2%) in the migraine without vestibular symptoms group, P < .001).
conclusionsThis study suggests that patients with vestibular migraine are more likely to have occipital headaches than patients with migraine without vestibular symptoms. Our data support the initiation of a prospective study to determine whether a patient presenting with occipital headaches, with late onset of age of headache, and with a history of motion sickness is at an increased risk for the possible development of vestibular migraine.
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