1984
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1984.tb00623.x
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Cognitive impairment in patients with severe migraine

Abstract: A controlled study of a group of patients with severe migraine revealed that they gave a consistently poorer performance on a series of memory and information-processing tests (12 subtests in all). Migraine sufferers were also found to differ from controls significantly on the anxiety, obsessionality and somatic scales of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire, although it was considered unlikely that the differences in cognitive performance could be explained by these results.

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“…In our study, as in others, cognitive performance was unrelated to length of headache history, 10,12,33-34 medication use, 12 or severity and duration of migraine attack. 10,13 Moreover, because migraineurs performed significantly more poorly than those with TTH on verbal measures at ages 3, 7, 9, 11, and 13, the effect does not appear to be attributable to the negative influence of headache pain and discomfort in general or reduced educational opportunities. Taken together, the findings that verbal performance remained consistently lower than the other groups at each assessment age, was first identified at the age 3 assessment, and did not decline with age suggest that verbal performance was not significantly influenced by migraine attacks "per se.…”
Section: Figure 2 the Mean Verbal Iq Scores Across Four Childhood Amentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In our study, as in others, cognitive performance was unrelated to length of headache history, 10,12,33-34 medication use, 12 or severity and duration of migraine attack. 10,13 Moreover, because migraineurs performed significantly more poorly than those with TTH on verbal measures at ages 3, 7, 9, 11, and 13, the effect does not appear to be attributable to the negative influence of headache pain and discomfort in general or reduced educational opportunities. Taken together, the findings that verbal performance remained consistently lower than the other groups at each assessment age, was first identified at the age 3 assessment, and did not decline with age suggest that verbal performance was not significantly influenced by migraine attacks "per se.…”
Section: Figure 2 the Mean Verbal Iq Scores Across Four Childhood Amentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Functional and electrophysiologic alterations in cortical functioning have been found during the migraine interval, [1][2][3][4][5] which may be associated with cognitive impairment as demonstrated on tests of perception, 6,7 psychomotor ability, 8 attention, [9][10][11] and verbal memory. 12,13 However, not all studies have found such cortical alterations 14 or cognitive performance decrements. 15,16 Thus, it remains unclear whether migraine is associated with cognitive efficiency and, if so, to what degree and specificity.…”
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“…Deficits in attention, early visual processing [27,28], memory [20][21][22][23][24][25], and psychomotor abilities [20,24,29] were reported in patients with migraine with aura assessed in the interictal period [30]. Cognitive impairment involving memory and psychomotor abilities was also shown in subjects with migraine without aura [20,30].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Brain based changes have been suggested including deep white matter lesions, cerebral hypo perfusion, reduced parietal and frontal gray matter, and cerebellar atrophy [20][21][22][23][24][25]. Studies over the past few decades have revealed weaknesses in psychomotor ability, memory, processing speed, visual processing, attention, and executive functioning [1,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. Cognitive impairments are thought to be the result of either physiological dynamics preceding a migraine or of pronounced post-attack effects.…”
Section: Migrainesmentioning
confidence: 99%