RELATIONSHIP OF MIGRAINE, EPILEPSY AND SOME OTHER NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

As far as I can determine, Tissot¹ was the first to postulate a special relationship between migraine and epilepsy. He wrote that he had often seen convulsive movements of the muscles of the forehead, eyelids and face associated with migraine and that sometimes the convulsions involved the entire body. Observations of migraine and epilepsy in the same person led Parry,² Liveing,³ Hare⁴ and Féré⁵ to believe that a special relationship existed between the two conditions. Féré supported this view by stating that he found migraine in the ascendants and descendants of persons with epilepsy; he also expressed the belief that ophthalmoplegic migraine was a sensory form of epilepsy. Wernicke,⁶ Spratling,⁷ Spiller,⁸ Flatau,⁹ Ulrich,¹⁰ Kowaleski,¹¹ Buchanan¹² and Krisch¹³ also held that a special relationship existed between migraine and epilepsy. Ely¹⁴ studied 104 patients with migraine and 171