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Review
. 2024 Jul;28(7):613-620.
doi: 10.1007/s11916-024-01256-0. Epub 2024 Apr 18.

Focused Update on Migraine and Vertigo Comorbidity

Tzu-Chou Huang  1 , Qadeer Arshad  2   3 , Amir Kheradmand  4   5   6   7
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Focused Update on Migraine and Vertigo Comorbidity

Tzu-Chou Huang et al. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2024 Jul.

Abstract

Purpose of review: To provide an update on comorbidity of vestibular symptoms and migraine.

Recent findings: Multisensory processing and integration is a key concept for understanding mixed presentation of migraine and vestibular symptoms. Here, we discuss how vestibular migraine should be distinguished from a secondary migraine phenomenon in which migraine symptoms may coincide with or triggered by another vestibular disorder. We also have some updates on the diagnostic criteria of vestibular migraine, its pathophysiology, and common approaches used for its treatment. As a common clinical presentation of migraine and vestibular symptoms, vestibular migraine should be distinguished from a secondary migraine phenomenon, in which migraine symptoms may be triggered by or coincide with another vestibular disorder. Recent experimental evidence suggests vestibular symptoms in vestibular migraine are linked to multisensory mechanisms that control body motion and orientation in space.

Keywords: Dizziness; Headache; Migraine; Vertigo; Vestibular migraine; Vestibular symptoms.

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