Personality Profiles in Cluster Headache and Migraine

Cuypers, J.; Altenkirch, H.; Bunge, S.

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“…Using the MMPI in migraine patients, some authors found normal profiles or, at least, a lower scale elevation than in patients with chronic tensiontype headache or with migraine and tension-type headache superimposed [3,5,6], while others found a marked elevation of several MMPI scales and, in female migraine patients, a typical V configuration of the neurotic triad of the MMPI (with high scores of hypochondria and hysteria and depression score still high but lower than those of the two other scales) [7]. Using the Eysenck personality questionnaire, higher scores of psychoticism were found [13].…”

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“…This issue also relates to the problem whether an association exists between personality changes and migraine. While clinical investigations using the Minnesota multipolar personality inventory (MMPI) in migraine patients led to controversial results [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13], epidemiologic and prospective studies [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] have confirmed this association. On the other hand, since behavioral and somatic symptoms are observed in patients with anxiety, mood and somatoform disorders [24], the assessment of their prevalence in a migraine patient population may be of help in evaluating the psychogenic component in these patients.…”

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Do accompanying symptoms in women with migraine allow distinction between two separate patient groups?

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We studied 46 untreated women with migraine without aura (mean age, 38±11 years) consecutively sent to the Headache and Facial Pain J Headache Pain (2002) 3:27-32 © Springer-Verlag 2002 Do accompanying symptoms in women with migraine allow distinction between two separate patient groups? Abstract We assessed the prevalence of a number of behavioral and somatic symptoms in women with migraine and investigated whether they were related to personality. In 46 women with migraine, record was taken of 26 symptoms, the MMPI and STAI questionnaires were administered and a psychological assessment was carried out with a semistructured interview using SCID, Italian version. Symptom data were processed through a self-organizing map (SOM) system and Kmeans cluster analysis. Since two patient clusters were obtained, data relative to headache characteristics aand the MMPI and STAI scores were assessed separately for each group. Group 2 had a significantly higher prevalence of several symptoms, of depressive disorders and higher MMPI and of STAI scores with respect to group 1, while the headache characteristics were substantially the same. It is concluded that a distinction can be made between two categories of female migraine patients with scarce or abundant accompanying symptoms. This difference does not seem related to the headache characteristics but, rather, to the patients' personality and psychopathologic symptoms.

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Do accompanying symptoms in women with migraine allow distinction between two separate patient groups?

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“…Kudrow and Sutkus [7] also used MMPI tests in a study of patients with cluster headache, migraine, ten sion type headache, posttraumatic headache and 'conver sion cephalalgia' without finding any significant differ ences, not even with regard to compulsive or obsessive behavioral patterns. Cuypers et al [8] used the Freiburg Personality Inventory in a study of patients with cluster headache and migraine without finding any differences between the two groups. Krabbe and Bech [9] studied per sonality and psychological factors in cluster headache patients with the Newcastle Depression Scale, the Hamil ton Depression Scale, the Diagnostic Melancholia Scale and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.…”

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Coping Style and Social Support in Women Suffering from Cluster Headache or Migraine

Blomkvist

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et al. 1997

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Background: Many clinical neurologists have considered cluster headache patients to differ from migraine patients as to behavioral patterns. There is, however, little empirical validation of such a differentiation. Methods: Coping profiles and social networks were studied in patients suffering from two kinds of recurrent headache. Twenty-four female patients with cluster headache, aged 23–72 years, and 24 age-matched migraine patients with and without aura participated in the study. All female cluster patients treated at the neurologic clinic of the hospital were included, and consecutive outpatients, who had been referred to the policlinics for diagnosis and treatment, whose symptoms agreed with the IHS criteria for migraine and who had ages matching the cluster headache patients, participated in the study. Results: In the semiprojective coping tests the cluster headache patients were found to be statistically significant more ‘positive’ as to their anticipated activities in the future compared to the migraine patients (p < 0.04). No other statistical differences were found between the two groups. Compared to randomly selected and age-matched referents in the population, cluster headache patients reported significantly poorer social support (p < 0.01), while no other difference was found when the migraine patients were compared with controls. Conclusions: The findings indicate that there are differences in perception of anticipated activities and social support between patients with cluster headache and migraine.

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“…In more recent studies of psychological status [17], cluster patients did not differ essentially from other headache groups. Personality features are therefore not a useful diagnostic characteristic.…”

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Misdiagnosis of cluster headache

Geweke

2002

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Misdiagnosis of cluster headache is common in clinical practice and can lead to significant morbidity. The International Headache Society has published diagnostic criteria that are generally straightforward and useful, but careful understanding of these criteria and how to handle exceptions is necessary. The primary diagnostic points involve severity, length, and frequency of individual headache attacks, as well as the presence of ipsilateral autonomic features. Such additional features as time cycling of headache clusters, physical characteristics of patients, and response to treatment may prove useful in individual cases, but must not be relied on too much.

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Personality Profiles in Cluster Headache and Migraine

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Do accompanying symptoms in women with migraine allow distinction between two separate patient groups?

Do accompanying symptoms in women with migraine allow distinction between two separate patient groups?

Coping Style and Social Support in Women Suffering from Cluster Headache or Migraine

Misdiagnosis of cluster headache

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