Electroencephalographic Changes in Children with Migraine

Abstract

THE concept of migraine as a seizure manifestation, based on the clinical picture of a paroxysmal disorder, often with a preceding aura, followed by various clinical manifestations, including neurologic signs and symptoms and a "postictal" phase of sleepiness, has considerable antiquity. The first published suggestion of a linkage between migraine and epilepsy is probably that of Liveing.¹ Gowers² was the first to use the term "Borderland of Epilepsy" to include both migraine and certain types of vertigo. Hughlings Jackson³ also had clearly considered such a relation when he demonstrated a case illustrating "the relationship between certain cases of migraine and . . .