Pediatric Epilepsy Pioneers in Italy

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2 Belcastro V, Striano P, Pierguidi L, Calabresi P, Tambasco N. Ictal epileptic headache mimicking status migrainosus: EEG and DWIMRI findings. Headache 2011; 51 (01) 160-162
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Suggested Readings
1 Parisi P, Striano P, Trenité DG. , et al. ‘Ictal epileptic headache’: recent concepts for new classifications criteria. Cephalalgia 2012; 32 (09) 723-724
2 Verrotti A, Coppola G, Spalice A. , et al. Peri-ictal and inter-ictal headache in children and adolescents with idiopathic epilepsy: a multicenter cross-sectional study. Childs Nerv Syst 2011; 27 (09) 1419-1423
3 Parisi P, Striano P, Negro A, Martelletti P, Belcastro V. Ictal epileptic headache: an old story with courses and appeals. J Headache Pain 2012; 13 (08) 607-613
4 Parisi P, Striano P, Verrotti A, Villa MP, Belcastro V. What have we learned about ictal epileptic headache? A review of well-documented cases. Seizure 2013; 22 (04) 253-258
5 Parisi P, Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité DGA, Piccioli M. , et al. A case with atypical childhood occipital epilepsy “Gastaut type”: an ictal migraine manifestation with a good response to intravenous diazepam. Epilepsia 2007; 48 (11) 2181-2186
6 Belcastro V, Striano P, Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité DGA, Villa MP, Parisi P. Migralepsy, hemicrania epileptica, post-ictal headache and “ictal epileptic headache”: a proposal for terminology and classification revision. J Headache Pain 2011; 12 (03) 289-294
7 Parisi P, Piccioli M, de Sneeuw S. , et al. Redefining headache diagnostic criteria as epileptic manifestation?. Cephalalgia 2008; 28 (04) 408-409 , author reply 409
8 Parisi P, Belcastro V, Verrotti A, Striano P, Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenitè DGA. “Ictal epileptic headache” and the revised International Headache Classification (ICHD-3) published in Cephalalgia 2018, vol. 38(1) 1–211: Epilepsy Behav 2018;87:243–245
9 Parisi P. Why is migraine rarely, and not usually, the sole ictal epileptic manifestation?. Seizure 2009; 18 (05) 309-312
10 Verrotti A, Coppola G, Di Fonzo A. , et al. Should “migralepsy” be considered an obsolete concept? A multicenter retrospective clinical/EEG study and review of the literature. Epilepsy Behav 2011; 21 (01) 52-59
11 Striano P, Belcastro V, Parisi P. From “migralepsy” to “ictal epileptic headache” concept. Epilepsy Behav 2012; 23 (03) 392
12 Belcastro V, Striano P, Parisi P. “Ictal epileptic headache”: beyond the epidemiological evidence. Epilepsy Behav 2012; 25 (01) 9-10
13 Parisi P. The complex relationship between epilepsy and headache and the concept of ictal epileptic headache. In: Striano P, ed. Epilepsy Towards the Next Decade. New Trends and Hopes in Epilepsy. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing; 2015: 139–162