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Migraine Associated Vertigo Symptoms

by James on 2 March 2010

What exactly are migraine associated vertigo symptoms?  For that matter, what is migraine-associated vertigo (MAV)?  Is it a disease?  What causes it?  How is it treated?
Another term sometimes used is vestibular migraine.  But neither MAV or vestibular migraine are considered specific types of migraine (according to The International Classification of Headache Disorders).  So it better not [...]

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Vertigo in Children

by James on 24 August 2009

Vertigo in children is a real challenge to diagnose for a number of reasons.  First, children often simply don’t realize what’s going on, or they have trouble describing it.  Second, vertigo can be a challenge to diagnose anyway, because there are many causes.
One of the major causes is migraine.  An article out of Germany recently [...]

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Vestibular Migraine – Why the confusion?

by James on 25 October 2008

It’s been in the news a lot lately – vestibular migraine.  You can be excused if you’ve never heard of such a thing before.  It’s not that lots of people don’t have it – in fact, I have a friend that does.  The confusion lies in the name.
Vestibular Migraine is not the official name of [...]

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Vertigo – could it be migraine?

by James on 19 September 2005

Vertigo, the feeling that the world is spinning or that you’re about to fall, often goes hand in hand with headaches.  Neurologist Dr Lee Moon Ken recently wrote this helpful article about vertigo, in which he talks among other things about the connection to headache.
In their book Migraine and Other Headaches, Drs Young and Silberstein [...]

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