Migraines and epilepsy are two common and chronic disorders with a tendency to relapse characterized by repeated attacks of cerebral dysfunction and are variously accompanied by the motor, sensory, psychomotor, psychic, gastrointestinal, autonomic and other forms of disorders. Migraines and epilepsy are linked by their symptom.profiles, comorbidity and treatment profile. A person suffering from one of these diseases is twice as at risk of having the other one perhaps as an overlap syndrome or may be due to co-morbidity and both the conditions are very commonly faced and handled by most of the GPS and clinicians of all the specialties and super specialties.
Let's discuss what review of literature says. The association of epilepsy and migraines indicates co-morbidity which does not occur by an accident, according to epidemiological studies. The reasons are partly genetic but at the same…