Brainstem aura: Involves symptoms that seem to originate in the brainstem such as Difficulty speaking Double vision Ringing ears or vertigo Hemiplegic migraine: Involves symptoms such as Motor weakness or loss of muscle strength, usually on one side of your body Struggle with language Feel confus...
The Migraine Research Foundation says that migraine is a neurological disease that affects 39 million people in the U.S. Migraines, which often begin in childhood, adolescence or early adulthood, can progress through four stages:prodrome, aura, attack and post-drome. What is happening in the br...
The former is supported by the cortical spreading depression being the aura correlate and by brainstem and hypothalamic activation during the pain phase; the latter is suggested by the association between migraine and cardiovascular disease and findings of pathological vasoreactivity and endothelial ...
A space-occupying brainstem lesion involving the cough center or compressing on the efferent fibers can be a rare cause of chronic cough[16]. NMOSD NMOSD is a rare autoimmune disease of the central nervous system with inflammation of the long segments of the spinal cord inflammation (myelitis) ...
Differential diagnoses for VM include MD, VBI, EA2, and migraine with brainstem aura. For rescue treatment, triptans, vestibular suppressants, and/or antiemetic agents may be considered. Pharmacologic migraine preventives (antiepileptics, beta-blockers, and antidepressants) are often useful.#The keys...
The hypothesis that migraine pain is due to a global brain disorder with substantial brainstem involvement leading to secondary blood flow changes in the posterior circulation is reinforced by several elegant studies. Clinical application of functional imaging findings in migraine is yet to be considered...
The pivotal role of both the brainstem and the hippocampus in the first phase of a migraine attack, the involvement of limbic pathway in the constitution of a migrainous pain network, the disrupted functional connectivity in cognitive brain networks, as well as the abnormal function ...
Moreover, during the acute migraine attack, but not during the headache free interval, a highly specific activation in brainstem structures has been seen. In cluster headache a specific hypothalamic activation was demonstrated. It has been suggested that this vascular change may reflect a generator ...