IHS Criteria for Migraine

The official International Headache Society or "IHS" criteria for headache are:

1. Migraine

Recurrent headaches separated by symptom-free intervals and accompanied by any three of the following:

complete relief after sleep

nausea or vomiting

aura (visual, sensory, motor)

hemicrania

throbbing, pulsatile quality

and/or positive family history of migraine.

1.1 Migraine without aura

1.2 Migraine with aura

1.8 Transformed migraine (chronic migraine)

2. Tension type headache

2.1 Episodic tension-type headache

2.2 Chronic tension-type headache

3. Cluster Headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania

3.1 Cluster headache

3.2 Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania

4. Chronic daily headache unassociated with structural lesion

4.7 New daily persistent headache

4.8 Hemicrania continua

Dialogues in Neurotherapeutic. Identification and prevention of primary headaches. Oct 2001, 1, 4