Vertigo is defined as an abnormal perception of movement of the environment or self, and occurs because of conflicting visual, proprioceptive and vestibular information about a person’s position in space.
Migraine usually appears before middle age; it affects about 20% of females and 6% of males at some point in life. Some patients assume that migraine is a term encompassing any severe headache but it has a characteristic Cluster headache is strikingly periodic, featuring runs of identical headaches beginning at the same hour for weeks at a time (the eponymous ‘cluster’).
Headache is common and causes considerable worry, but rarely represents sinister disease. The causes may be divided into primary or secondary, and most patients, whether presenting in clinic or as emergencies, have primary syndromes.
The tempo of evolution of headache is critical; sudden-onset headache ,maximal immediately, is always a ‘red flag’ and should prompt rapid assessment in hospital for possible subarachnoid hemorrhage or other sinister causes, even though only 10–25% of patients harbour
serious pathology.
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