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Show UTU,ATURE ABSTRACTS 267 tients ll,ld bilateral optic neuritis; thn'l' llf them showed areas of incrto>C1sed sign.ll in PIll' llptic nerve, the latter being the morl' st'vt'rt'ly 'lffedt'd optic nerve from a clinical pllint of vit'w. 'Nll .1SYIllmetry llf sizt' or sign.ll bl'twl't'n the tWll ll~)til' nerves W,lS found in the controls. A"illlltllli R. Stlfrall, M.C>. Migraine and Somnambulism. A Study of 122 Migrainous Patients. Ginlud M, 0' Athis I'h, Guard 0, Dum.1s R. /'('" Nc"rtJl lLJ8n; 1-l2:42-6 Clan). IReprint rto'quests to M. Giroud, Service de Neurologie, J, rue du Faubourg Raines, F-21000 Dijon, France.1 The history of somnambulism in childhood was researched in a retrospective study encompassing 122 patients with migraine, and 110 patients with non migrainous headache. It was found that histllry of sllmnambulism was significantly more frequent in patients with migraine than in control patients: somnambulism had occurred in 36 patients of the former group but in only six patients of the second group. In the studied population, somnambulism and migraine appeared to occur at different ages, the former earlier than the latter. It was suggested that both could result from a disorder of serotonin metabolism. A"i1l[)IWI B. Safran, M.D. |