Neurologist Discusses Alzheimer's

I am not aware of any connection between migraines and Alzheimer's disease. However, migraines, without pain, can sometimes cause symptoms such as difficulty seeing half of a door or half of a room, problems navigating to familiar places, loss of language abilities, and weakness or sensory changes in parts of the body. It is possible that these symptoms, particularly if relatively abrupt in onset and transient over a day or two, could be due to migraines. When evaluating the patient with cognitive complaints, it is important to get a history with details of events in order to determine the correct diagnosis for each patient. Migraine-type spells, seizures, vitamin deficiencies, medication toxicities, infections and many other disorders must be considered in the differential diagnosis for each patient with cognitive complaints.