[A neuropsychologic study in migraine patients].

Abstract

A neuropsychologic test battery (nine kinds, eighteen items) was administered to 16 patients with classic migraine and 32 with common migraine in between attacks, 20 patients with functional headache and 20 physically and mentally healthy volunteers were sustained the test battery as control. The results suggested that the patients of both migraine groups had higher nervous dysfunction in motor, perception, memory, abstract thought, attention and information processing, statistic analysis showed significant difference between both migraine groups and normal control group. The higher nervous dysfunction became worse with the prolongation of course of migraine.