Summary Objective Recovery from acute Bell's palsy (BP) is variable and there are few predictors of response. We evaluated the usefulness of a range of neurophysiological parameters to predict outcome in BP. Methods Fifty-nine patients (age: 33.7±15.4 years) with acute unilateral BP were recruited within 3–7 days of onset. They were evaluated with electroneurography, facial nerve excitability, and the blink reflex. House-Brackmann (HB) clinical scores were obtained at the same time and three months later. All patients received prednisolone treatment and regular rehabilitation. Results At three months, 41 patients (69.5%) had good recovery, while 18 patients (30.5%) had poor recovery according to the HB scale. The facial nerve excitability threshold and threshold difference between sides were significantly lower in patients with good recovery than those with poor recovery (P …

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Objectives: Headache is one of the most common complaints in medicine. Epidemiological and population-based studies reported that migraine has a variable prevalence worldwide. This study was done to estimate the prevalence of migraine across various age groups in Assiut district, Egypt. Methods: This is a door-to-door study. It included 4700 randomly selected individuals. Results: Headache was reported in 1668 subjects (35.49%), of them, 87.65%(n= 1462) had primary headaches. Migraine prevalence was 10.51% with female-to- male ratio of 2.4: 1 particularly in ages of 20–40 years. The mean age of patients was 31.46±13.39 years and age at onset was 24.16±12.10 years. Nearly, 63.5% had frequent attacks, 65.2% of the attacks were severe enough to stop daily activities and lasted for> 1 day in 32.5% of females compared to 40.7% and 14.5% for males. Chronic or daily