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. 2018 Nov 16;2(Suppl 1):964. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igy031.3573

INVESTIGATING THE NEUROCOGNITIVE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SEQUELAE OF CHRONIC MIGRAINES

G Vitale 1, V Tran 2, M Lenox 2
PMCID: PMC6239799

Abstract

The objective was to determine 1) if migraines correlate with difficulties (e.g., cognitive, psychological, functional) and 2) most impacted domains. The sample (N=140) consisted of primarily (81.4%) female older adults with a mean age of 68.62 years (SD=10.08) and mean education of 16.31 years (SD=2.38).

Exclusion criteria

diagnosis of possible/probable neurocognitive disorder, learning disability or substance abuse. Outcomes included age and education-normed z-scores from a cognitive screening, Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR), Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Questionnaire (NPI-Q), and Geriatric Depression Scale-Short Form (GDS-S). De-identified data were collected from the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) database. All measures from the cognitive screening fell within 1 standard deviation of the average (-1


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