According to ICHD-3 criteria, what constitutes migraine without aura?

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According to ICHD-3 criteria, what constitutes migraine without aura?

Migraine without aura is characterized by attacks that last 4–72 hours and show migrainous features such as unilateral, pulsating pain with moderate to severe intensity, often worsened by routine activity, plus during the headache there is nausea and/or photophobia or phonophobia, with no aura preceding the headache. The description that best fits this is recurrent headaches lasting 4–72 hours, typically unilateral and pulsating, with nausea or photophobia/phonophobia, and without aura. This aligns with the absence of aura and the key migrainous symptoms and duration. The other descriptions fail because one describes a much shorter duration and lacks photophobia, another includes aura (which would be migraine with aura), and the last describes a tension-type pattern rather than a migrainous one.

Migraine without aura is characterized by attacks that last 4–72 hours and show migrainous features such as unilateral, pulsating pain with moderate to severe intensity, often worsened by routine activity, plus during the headache there is nausea and/or photophobia or phonophobia, with no aura preceding the headache. The description that best fits this is recurrent headaches lasting 4–72 hours, typically unilateral and pulsating, with nausea or photophobia/phonophobia, and without aura. This aligns with the absence of aura and the key migrainous symptoms and duration. The other descriptions fail because one describes a much shorter duration and lacks photophobia, another includes aura (which would be migraine with aura), and the last describes a tension-type pattern rather than a migrainous one.

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