Reversible Quantitative EEG Changes in a Case of Cyclic Vomiting: Evidence for Migraine Equivalent
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Vol. 33 (1) , 80-85
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1991.tb14787.x
Abstract
Medical experts have disputed whether childhood cyclic vomiting is a manifestation of epilepsy or a migraine equivalent. Quantitative EEG provides an objective measure of changes in brain activity during and between episodes. This paper reports reversible changes involving two episodes in a patient whose history included cyclic vomiting and emotional/behavioural problems. Abnormal delta activity seen during both episodes resolved at follow-up, when the patient asymptomatic. The brain wave changes counter the hypothesis that vomiting in these patients is psychosomatic, and support the interpretation of cyclic vomiting as a migraine equivalent.Keywords
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