Tension-Type Headache and Sleep

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Rains, Jeanetta C ^a   Davis, Rachel E ^b   Smitherman, Todd A ^b  

^a Elliot Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Awakening headache; Chronification; Headache; Insomnia; Morning headache; Psychiatric comorbidity; Sleep apnea headache; Sleep related headache; Snoring; Tension type headache

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; MIRTAZAPINE; TIZANIDINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ANXIETY DISORDER; CHRONIC TENSION HEADACHE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG INDICATION; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MOOD DISORDER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REST; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLEEP AROUSAL DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84924916291     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-014-0520-2     Document Type: Review

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