RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Asymmetry of the aura and pain in migraine.
JF Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
JO J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 846
OP 848
DO 10.1136/jnnp.44.9.846
VO 44
IS 9
A1 Peatfield, R C
A1 Gawel, M J
A1 Rose, F C
YR 1981
UL http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/44/9/846.abstract
AB Patients with classical migraine whose auras included paraesthesiae or numbness in the hands have been reviewed. In 55 of 111 patients the symptoms were on the same side of the body as the headache and in only 20 on the opposite side to the headache. In the remaining 36 patients one or other was incompletely lateralised. Five right handed patients described dysphasia at the same time as paraesthesiae in the their non-dominant hand. These findings are incompatible with the notion that the headache is due to reactive hyperaemia following localised cerebral ischaemia, and it is suggested that the ischaemic and hyperaemic processes are both the result of some more generalised vasomotor disturbance.