Ruhsal Nedenli Başağrıları
Arif Çelebi, Ahmet Güner Altunhalka
Article No:
5
Article Type :
Research
In the "Classification and Diagnostic Criteria for Headache Disoders, Cranial Neuralgias and Facial Pain" published in 1988 by Headache Classification Committee of the Internatinal Headache Society, headache of psychologic origin was not included as a seperate heading or a subform of a headache type. Neverthless, it was accepted that tension type headache may be caused by psychological stress or by some of the psychiatric disorders. In the presented article, psychiatric disorders which can cause headache were giyen, and the psychophysiologic (psychosomatic), psychiatric, psychological n ıechanisms which may act upon the development of psychogenic headache and the learned pain and of the patients whit this type of pain was described, and therapeutic approches were dwelt on.
Keywords :
Headache, cranial neuralgia
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
1995;8:18-23
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