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Quantitative EEG in Children with Headache
Author(s) -
Valdizán J.R.,
Andreu C.,
AImárcegui C.,
Olivito A.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1994.hed3401053.x
Subject(s) - aura , migraine , migraine with aura , electroencephalography , medicine , anesthesia , psychology , audiology , neuroscience
SYNOPSIS The object of this work is to determine if Brain Mapping can reveal significant differences between a normal control group and e group whose members suffer from one of three types of headache: tension‐type, migraine with aura and migraine without aura. Both groups were formed by children aged between 6 and 14; the latter were undergoing no treatment and were in a headache‐free phase. Results demonstrate that there are no significant differences between the control group and the tension‐type headache group. Neither were differences found in migraine without aura group but in migraine with aura there was an increase of the theta/alpha ratio in the temporal posterior and occipital zones. This ratio could be used as a neurophysiological indicator in the evolution of the migraine with aura pathology.