Hypnic headache: PSG evidence of both REM- and NREM-related attacks

Neurology. 2004 Apr 27;62(8):1411-3. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000120670.46841.70.

Abstract

Hypnic headache (HH) occurs exclusively during sleep. Six attacks were recorded during nocturnal polysomnographic (PSG) monitoring of 10 HH patients. The PSG data obtained indicate that the attacks arose directly from sleep: four from non-REM and two from REM sleep. In no patient were the HH attacks found to show any close temporal relationship with sleep-related breathing abnormalities.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial

MeSH terms

  • Age of Onset
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Caffeine / therapeutic use
  • Central Nervous System Stimulants / therapeutic use
  • Cinnarizine / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Headache Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Headache Disorders / drug therapy
  • Headache Disorders / physiopathology*
  • Histamine H1 Antagonists / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Monitoring, Physiologic
  • Polysomnography / statistics & numerical data*
  • Rare Diseases / diagnosis
  • Rare Diseases / drug therapy
  • Rare Diseases / physiopathology
  • Sleep Apnea Syndromes / diagnosis
  • Sleep Apnea Syndromes / physiopathology
  • Sleep Stages*
  • Sleep, REM*

Substances

  • Central Nervous System Stimulants
  • Histamine H1 Antagonists
  • Cinnarizine
  • Caffeine