Patients With Migraines More Likely To Have Depression

Woman with headache, specifically migraine disorder, are more prone to suffer from depression, feel weary, and have a host of other strict physical symptoms, according to a clinical research published in the January 9, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

The medical research involved 1800 women who buy cymbalta online at headache clinics in nine states. Of the women surveyed, 116 reported occasional headache (less than 15 headaches monthly) and 443 had chronic headache. Ninety percent/% of the people were tested with migraines.

The clinical study found man with chronic headache were four times more predisposed than those with episodic headache to report symptoms of major Depression. Chronic headache sufferers were also three times more predisposed to report a high degree of symptoms linked to headache, pain or puzzle during intercourse.

Among man tested with severely disabling migraine, the clinical research found the likelihood of major Atypical Depression increased 32-fold if the patient also reported other severe symptoms.

“Painful physical symptoms should agitate or be a manifestation of major Depression in patients with chronic headache, which can be treated if you buy maxalt and Atypical Depression can heighten pain perception,” said medical study author Gretchen Tietjen, MD with the University of Toledo-Health Science Campus and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. “This link between migraine and major Manic Depression suggests a common neurobiology.”

Tietjen says medical research are underway to test whether severe headache, severe physical symptoms and major Manic Depression would be linked through dysfunction of serotonin in the central nervous system.

“Regardless of what’s causing the dependence between migraine and Major Depression, psychiatric disease such as Depression complicates headache treatment and can lead to poorer consequence for headache management,” said Tietjen.

The medical investigation was assistanced, in part, by the American Headache Society, which estimates 18 million American women suffer from headache.

The American Academy of Neurology, an association of more than 12.000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to ameliorating patient care through education and clinical research. A neurologist is a physician with a wide knowladge of monitoring, treating and managing diseases of the brain and nervous system such as apoplexy, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, Parkinson disorder, and repeated sclerosis.

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