CLINICAL FEATURES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEPRESSION AS A PREDICTOR OF COMPLICATION FORMS OF MIGRAINE

Abstract

Migraine is one of the common type of headache of ten times leading patients of working age to social maladjustment. It has been long studied by scientists all over the world and some aspects should be matter of further study. Brain damage due to vascular pathology in migraine partly cause pathology of psychological status with the development of severe depression which in turn further aggravate and worsen migraine attack and also intensity and duration of headache. The report provides data of psychological status examination according to Hamilton Rating Scale based on intensity and the character of headaches in patients with complicated forms of migraine. One out of them is severe depression, which involves focal lesion and pathochemical disturbances in brain activity. Existed depression might worsen headache intensity and duration leading to reduction of remission periods, contributing continuous chain so called pain-depression-pain.