We know that migraine and depression are comorbid – they often go together. But why? Does one cause the other? Do they cause each other? Or is there a shared factor causing both? Migraine and Depression – a common combination Researchers in the Department of Neurology at the Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands [...]
by James on 10 February 2010
What is comorbid with migraine, and what does that mean? Comorbidity basically refers to two conditions that tend to go together. That doesn’t mean that one caused the other. In fact, we usually don’t know why they go together. It could be there’s a common cause, or maybe one could cause the other. It could [...]
by James on 13 October 2008
It’s that time of month again – time for the Headache and Migraine Disease Blog Carnival! I’m not going to give a summary of some of the best posts like I often do. But I have scanned a few of them already and there are some really interesting ones. Actually, more than half this month [...]
by James on 11 January 2007
A new study is expanding our understanding of the links between headaches, migraine and depression. The study was published in the January 9th edition of Neurology, on research led by Gretchen Tietjen, a neurologist at the Ohio’s University of Toledo Health Science Campus. In simple terms, the study found that women with chronic headache or [...]
I’ve never mentioned this study, published in 2003, but it may help us clarify the relationship between headache, migraine and depression. Dr Naomi Breslau, of the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, headed up a two year long study, which was published in the journal Neurology. Dr Breslau and her team interviewed 1186 people – [...]