Psychiatric Aspects of Migraine Type Headache

Abstract Headache is the most common complaint of the patients, who applied to general orneurology outpatient clinics. While considering headache intensity and its impact on lifequality and individual or national economy; migraine type headache can be accepted asone of the most important problems that affected approximately 700 million of world population. Migraine type headache is a chronic disease that generally has unilateral localization and characterized by severe and pulsating headache which could be continuousfor days and affecting people’s daily activities negatively. As well as it is common to havehigh incidence of concurrent psychiatric disorders in patients, many psychological factors have been shown to be effective in the onset and course of migraine type headache.However, the used different diagnostic criteria, scale and patient populations makes the determination of typical characteristics difficult. Psychiatric symptoms has been suggested as a risk factor for migraine type headache. Anxiety and anger. have long been associated with migraine type headache. The aim of this review article is to investigate theetiology of migraine type headache and relationship between psychiatric symptoms