Bruno Colombo • Roberto Teggi
Editors

2014

Migraine is the more frequent neurological disorder, comprising nearly 20 % of outpatient neurological visits, even if worldwide prevalence of chronic disabling migraine is about 1 %. Migraine is characterised by recurrent attacks of headache associated to variable symptoms, including vertigo. Vertigo and dizziness may be associated to migraine in different ways. Vertigo may be the key manifestation of a basilar migraine, it can be an equivalent of migraine, particularly in young subjects, it may be the expression of a higher susceptibility to motion sickness in migraine patients or it may simply reflect the occasional co-occurrence of two frequent neurological disorders, migraine and central or peripheral vestibular pathologies. Quite recently, after long discussions among experts, the term “vestibular migraine” has been proposed to describe a condition where manifestations of vestibular dysfunctions are caused by migraine, constituting a special type of aura.