CASE-STUDY - DREAMY STATE AND TEMPORAL-LOBE DYSFUNCTION IN A MIGRAINOUS ADOLESCENT

Symptoms of migraine can be very atypical during childhood and adolesc ence. This article describes a case in which the symptoms of migraine were mainly psychiatric: dreamy state, intermittent confusion, partial amnesia, and childlike regressive behavior with depressive features. Although the results from neurological examinations and electroencepha lographic recordings were normal when the individual was symptomatic o r not, temporal lobe dysfunction, determined by Tc-99m-hexamethyl-prop yleneamine oxamine single-photon emission computed tomography, was evi dent during the migraine.