title: The psychosomatic spectrum: a clinical-analytic survey of the relationship between eating disorders and migraine.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate if somatic symptoms of Eating Disorders and Migraine reflect similar aspects of personality and temperament.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical notes of 27 migraineurs and of 26 ED outpatients were reviewed; 40 medical students of the University of Perugia were recruited as healthy controls. TCI, DMI, SCID-II and TAS-20 were used.
  
  
  METHODS
  performed by logistic regression, a cluster analysis that gave the weight for the three groups, and a logistic regression of the cluster analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Patients showed medium scores in almost all the scales of the different tests. High scores in HA and low scores in NS characterized both migraine and ED patients. Logistic regression of the cluster analysis underscored that ED patients, migraineurs, and controls differed for HA (435.424, p≤0.0001), TAS-20 F2 (difficulty in describing feelings to others; 7.087, p=0.029), and the defense mechanism turning against object (6.702, p=0.035).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The temperamental aspects of low NS and high HA represent the core symptoms of a spectrum composed of somatizing patients who use affective and behavioral strategies that are not functional enough in affective regulation.
authors.affiliation: School of Specialization in Psychiatry, University of Perugia, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, E. Mattei road, n. 20, 62010, Appignano (MC), Perugia, Italy, norma.verdolini@libero.it.
authors.forename: Norma
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Verdolini
authors.forename: Giuseppina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: De Giorgio
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Moretti
authors.forename: Massimiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piselli
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Quartesan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D013694:Temperament