While headaches can sometimes be painful and debilitating, a person can treat most of them with simple pain medications. However, repeated attacks or certain types of headaches could indicate an underlying health condition.
Experts from the University of Nottingham have proven that multiple sclerosis (MS) can successfully be diagnosed using an MRI scan, meaning patients no longer need to undergo a painful lumbar puncture.
A migraine with scotoma is a type of ocular migraine that involves a complete or partial loss of vision, usually affecting one eye.Some people may have scintillations around a scotoma, which may look like a semicircle of white, gray, or kaleidoscope-like colors surrounding the area of vision loss.
The main difference between episodic and chronic migraine is the frequency. Chronic migraine may cause severe pain on 15 or more days per month for at least 3 months. Episodic migraine is less frequent and may be less intense.
People who develop epilepsy after a traumatic brain injury are at an 80% higher risk of premature death compared to those who have suffered a similar brain injury without developing epilepsy. This has been shown in a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg.
