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Title: Symptoms of Increased Intracranial Pressure

Category: Neurology

Keywords: ICP, intracranial pressure (PubMed Search)

Posted: 11/18/2009 by Aisha Liferidge, MD (Updated: 7/21/2026)

Global symptoms of elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) include:

  • Headache (likely mediated via the pain fibers of cranial nerve V in the dura and blood vessels)
  • Depressed consciousness (likely due to either the local effect of mass lesions or pressure on the midbrain reticular formation)
  • Vomiting

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