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Commentary: Acute Tension-Type Headaches Are Associated with Impaired Cognitive Function and More Negative Mood.

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  • Neurosurgery and Neurology Unit, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil Keywords: headache disorders, primary, moon, tension-type headache, severity, performance

  • Acute tension-type headaches are associated with impaired cogni­tive function and more negative mood by Smith AP

  • There are a number of articles dealing with cognition/behavior in headache patients [2,3,4], there is still a consensus that the two most frequent primary headaches, migraine and tensiontype headache (TTH) [5], do not significantly affect cognitive functions to a degree that daily activities are seriously affected, when one considers the interictal periods

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Neurosurgery and Neurology Unit, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil Keywords: headache disorders, primary, moon, tension-type headache, severity, performance. There are a number of articles dealing with cognition/behavior in headache patients [2,3,4], there is still a consensus that the two most frequent primary headaches, migraine and TTH [5], do not significantly affect cognitive functions to a degree that daily activities are seriously affected, when one considers the interictal periods.

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