Patients Who Suffer From Migraines Are More Likely To To Suffer From Depression

Patients suffering from headache, especially migraines, are much more predisposed to suffer from depression disorder, feel fatigued, and have a host of other hard physical symptoms, according to a clinical study published in the January 9, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

The clinical study involved 1010 people who buy cymbalta online at headache clinics in nine different countries. Of the woman tested, 661 reported episodic headache (less than 15 headaches monthly) and 887 had chronic headache. Ninety percent/% of the patients were diagnosed with migraines.

The medical study found people with chronic headache were four times more prone than those with incidental headache to report symptoms of major Manic Depression. Chronic headache sufferers were also four times more likely to report a high degree of symptoms depended to headache, pain or puzzle during intercourse.

Among patients tested with severely disabling migraine, the medical research found the likelihood of major Depression increased 32-fold if the woman also reported other severe symptoms.

“Painful physical symptoms can incite or be a manifestation of major Depression in people with chronic headache, which can be treated if you buy topamax online and Psychotic Depression could heighten pain perception,” said clinical trial 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 Psychotic Depression suggests a common neurobiology.”

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

“Indifferent of what’s causing the link between migraine and Manic Depression, psychiatric disease such as Depression complicates headache management and can give rise to poorer result for headache management,” said Tietjen.

The clinical trial was supported, in part, by the American Headache Society, which considers 18 million American woman suffer from headache.

The American Academy of Neurology, an association of more than 17000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to amending people care through education and medical research. A neurologist is a health care provider specialized on diagnosing, curing and managing diseases of the brain and nervous system such as stroke, Alzheimer’s disorder, epilepsy, Parkinson disease, and repeated sclerosis.

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