The crossover between headache and epilepsy

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 231-233

  Parisi, Pasquale ^a   Striano, Pasquale ^b   Belcastro, Vincenzo ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c SANT ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

classification criteria; comorbidity; epidemiology; epilepsy; headache; ictal epileptic headache; migraine

Indexed keywords

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; COMORBIDITY; DEPOLARIZATION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEADACHE; REVIEW; SPIKE WAVE; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; TENSION HEADACHE;

EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HUMANS;

EID: 84874604230     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.13.16     Document Type: Review

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