QUANTITATIVE EEG IN CHILDREN WITH HEADACHE

The object of this work is to determine if Brain Mapping can reveal si gnificant differences between a normal control group and a group whose members suffer from one of three types of headache: tension-type. mig raine with aura and migraine without aura. Both groups were formed by children aged between 6 and 14; the tatter were undergoing no treatmen t and were in a headache-free phase. Results demonstrate that there ar e no significant differences between the control group and the tension -type headache group. Neither were differences found in migraine witho ut aura group but in migraine with aura there was an increase of the t heta/alpha ratio in the temporal posterior and occipital zones. This r atio could be used as neurophysiological indicator in the evolution of the migraine with aura pathology.