Clinical Features of Late-Life Migraine Versus TIAs

• Gradual appearance of focal neurologic symptoms with spread or worsening over a period of minutes
• Headache present in 50% of cases
• Positive visual symptoms, such as scintillating scotoma or flashing or bright lights
• Serial progression from one accompaniment to another (for example, from flashing lights to paresthesia, paresis, or dysphasia)
• Diagnosis facilitated with the occurrence of
• Duration of 15-25 minutes (as opposed to <15 minutes in 90% of headaches associated with TIA)
• Characteristic “flurry” of accompaniments
• Usually benign natural history without permanent sequelae
• No other cause revealed by diagnostic testing performed when indicated ≥2 identical episodes
  
• Fisher CM. Late-life migraine accompaniments-further experience.

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Vol. 19 No. 11 ISSN 0264-6404 December 2001
21st Century Prevention and Management of Migraine Headaches
National Institutes of Health
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"People with poor vision who did not visit an ophthalmologist over an 8-to 1/2 year period had a much greater chance of developing dementia. Please use your calendar to schedule an appointment to have your eyes checked (at least once every two years)." by Dr. Brain K. Regan, Ph. D.

By: Dr. Pascale Michelon

"Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity
The catchy phrase behind neu­ro­plas­tic­ity is “neu­rons that fire together wire together”. The idea is that when two events (neu­rons fir­ing) occur in the brain at the same time, the events (neu­rons) become asso­ci­ated with one another, and the neu­ronal con­nec­tions (wiring) become stronger.
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For many years, it was thought that each area of the brain had its own respon­si­bil­i­ties; in other words, cer­tain func­tions were local­ized or hard­wired to cer­tain brain areas. If some­thing is hard­wired then it is fixed and not capa­ble of change."

Presently, the last 2 years, I have been experiencing this plasticity by the help of Shepherd Center, Friends, Family and my own research on brain plasticity or neuroplasticity. It is amazing "how you can assist your brain by doing just small everyday things."