Prof. P. I. Kovalevskiy. Migraine (Hemicrania). —Archive of psychiatry. 1897. T. XXX. Number 3

Migraine is a vasomotor neurosis that develops exclusively on inherited soil and serves as an expression of degeneration. Suffering has a particular preference for the female sex, being transmitted mainly through direct inheritance. In addition, migraine refers to a kind of nervous illness, in which a homogeneous inheritance is manifested with particular force, when migraine is present not only in these patients, but also in their parents and even grandparents. The disease can arise and not by identical transmission; In migraine, other neuroses and neuropsychoses can also be transformed: epilepsy, hysteria, neurasthenia and in general all psychoses of degeneration can be transmitted to offspring in the form of migraine. But a particularly prominent place in this series is occupied by epilepsy.