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Can migraines cause a seizure and vice versa?
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Great question: New terminology is now in the literature: migralepsy. There is a strong overlap with migraine and epilepsy. Complex issue, but they both involve paroxysmal activity of the central nervous system that can cause complex total body dysfunction that resolves with acute treatment. It is often very difficult to differentiate these events into just migraine or perhaps epileptic events.
Answered 1/22/2013
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