Psychiatric comorbidity of chronic daily headache: Focus on traumatic experiences in childhood, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidality

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Juang, Kai Dih ^a,b   Yang, Chin Yi ^c  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Ton Yen General Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chronic daily headache; Post traumatic stress disorder; Psychiatric comorbidity; Suicidality; Traumatic experiences in childhood

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SEROTONIN; SLC6A4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANXIETY DISORDER; CHILD ABUSE; CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE; CHRONIC DAILY HEADACHE; CHRONICITY; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; MORBIDITY; PHYSICAL ABUSE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; SUICIDE; CHILD; CRIME VICTIM; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEADACHE AND FACIAL PAIN; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROMOTER REGION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

EID: 84893637105     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-014-0405-8     Document Type: Review

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