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Review
. 2015 Mar;19(3):5.
doi: 10.1007/s11916-015-0479-y.

Psychiatric comorbidity in childhood and adolescence headache

Grete Dyb  1 , Synne Stensland, John-Anker Zwart
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Review

Psychiatric comorbidity in childhood and adolescence headache

Grete Dyb et al. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2015 Mar.

Abstract

Primary headaches among children and adolescents have a substantial impact on quality of life, daily activities, social interaction, and school performance in combination with psychopathological symptoms. The main purpose of the present paper is to summarize clinical and epidemiological evidence for psychiatric comorbidity among children and adolescents with headaches, to describe how evidence in headache research suggest different pathways involved in the development and maintenance of these comorbid conditions, and finally suggest some elements professionals may find helpful to assess the scope of complaints, related functional impairment, and potential precipitating factors in planning of more targeted treatments.

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Conflict of interest statement

Grete Dyb, Synne Stensland, and John-Anker Zwart declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Model of the potential dynamic mechanisms linking primary headache to psychopathology in children and adolescents
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