Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 81, Issue 2 , Pages 157-160 , August 2004

Migraine headache and mood disorders: a descriptive study in an outpatient psychiatric population

  • Linda Franchini

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Scientifico H. San Raffaele, Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences, School of Medicine, Università Vita e Salute, Via Stamira d’Ancona 20, 20127 Milan, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39-02-2643-3280; fax: +39-02-2643-3265.
    • ,
  • Fanny Bongiorno

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Scientifico H. San Raffaele, Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences, School of Medicine, Università Vita e Salute, Via Stamira d’Ancona 20, 20127 Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Danilo Dotoli

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Scientifico H. San Raffaele, Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences, School of Medicine, Università Vita e Salute, Via Stamira d’Ancona 20, 20127 Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Innocenzo Rainero

      Affiliations

    • Headache Center, Department of Neuroscience, University of Torino, Turin, Italy
    • ,
  • Lorenzo Pinessi

      Affiliations

    • Headache Center, Department of Neuroscience, University of Torino, Turin, Italy
    • ,
  • Enrico Smeraldi

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Scientifico H. San Raffaele, Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences, School of Medicine, Università Vita e Salute, Via Stamira d’Ancona 20, 20127 Milan, Italy

Received 19 February 2003 ,Revised 18 June 2003 ,Accepted 18 June 2003.

References 

  1. American Psychiatric Association . Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association; 1994;
  2. Breslau N, Schultz LR, Stewart WF, Lipton RB, Lucia VC, Welch KM. Headache and major depression: is the association specific to migraine?. Neurology. 2000;54(2):308–313
  3. Dworkin SF. First onset of common pain symptoms: a prospective study of depression as a risk factor. Pain. 1993;55:251–258
  4. Fasmer OB. The prevalence of migraine in patients with bipolar and unipolar affective disorders. Cephalalgia. 2001;21(9):894–899
  5. Franchini L, Serretti A, Gasperini M, Smeraldi E. Familial concordance of fluvoxamine response as a tool for differentiating mood disorder pedigrees. J. Psychiatr. Res. 1998;32:255–259
  6. Gardner K. The genetic basis of migraine: how much do we know?. Can. J. Neurol. Sci. 1999;26(3):37–43
  7. Göbel H, Petersen-Braun M, Soyka D. The epidemiology of headache in Germany: a nationwide survey of a representative sample on the basis of the headache classification of the International Headache Society. Cephalalgia. 1994;14:97–106
  8. Headache Classification Committee of the International Headache Society . Classification and diagnostic criteria for headache disorders, cranial neuralgias and fascial pain. Cephalalgia. 1988;8(7):1–96
  9. Lea RA, Curtain RP, Hutchins C, Brimage PJ, Griffiths LR. Investigation of the CACNA1A gene as a candidate for typical migraine susceptibility. Am. J. Med. Genet. 2001;105(8):707–712
  10. Lipton RB. Comorbidity in migraine—causes and effects. Cephalalgia. 1998;18(22):8–11
  11. Mahmood T, Silverstone T. Twin concordance for bipolar disorder and migraines. Am. J. Psychiatry. 2000;157(12):2057
  12. Mahmood T, Romans S, Silverstone T. Prevalence of migraine in bipolar disorder. J. Affect. Disord. 1999;52:239–241
  13. Mahmood T, Silverstone T, Connor R, Herbison P. Sumatripan challenge in bipolar patients with and without migraine: a neuroendocrine study of 5-HT1D receptor. Int. Clin. Psychopharmacol. 2002;17(1):33–35
  14. Merikangas KR, Merikangas JR, Angst J. Migraine and depression: association and familial transmission. J. Psychiatr. Res. 1993;27:197–210
  15. Nieper HA. Clinical applications of lithium orotate: a two-year study. J. Acad. Prevent. Med. 1975;2:18–22
  16. Serretti A, Franchini L, Gasperini M, Rampoldi R, Smeraldi E. Mode of inheritance in mood disorders families according to fluvoxamine response. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 1998;98:443–450
  17. Shiah IS, Ko HC, Lee JF, Lu RB. Platelet 5-HT and plasma MHPG levels in patients with bipolar I and bipolar II depressions and normal controls. J. Affect. Disord. 1999;52:101–110
  18. Singh NN, Misra S. Sertraline in chronic tension-type headache. J. Assoc. Physicians India. 2002;50:871–872

PII: S0165-0327(03)00164-2

doi: 10.1016/S0165-0327(03)00164-2

Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 81, Issue 2 , Pages 157-160 , August 2004

Article Tools