Can headache impair intellectual abilities in children? an observational study

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 509-513

  Esposito, Maria ^a   Pascotto, Antonio ^a   Gallai, Beatrice ^c   Parisi, Lucia ^b   Roccella, Michele ^c   Marotta, Rosa ^d   Lavano, Serena Marianna ^d   Gritti, Antonella ^e   Mazzotta, Giovanni ^f   Carotenuto, Marco ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^e Universita degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa   (Italy)

^f Unit of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry   (Italy)

Author keywords

Childhood headache; Intelligence; Intelligence quotient; Migraine; Weschler intelligence scale for children third edition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TENSION HEADACHE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

EID: 84869212319     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S36863     Document Type: Article

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