Familial hemiplegic migraine is a distinctive form of migraine with autosomal dominant
inheritance. The patients undergo attacks of migraine complicated by hemiplegia. Seizures
have not been reported as comprising a part of this syndrome. We describe three
generations of a family with hemiplegic migraine and focal seizures occurring concurrently
with the migrainous attacks. There were five affected family members whose clinical features
included unilateral headache and transient hemiplegia. Two family members also had focal …