title: Chronic Migraine in Children and Adolescents.
abstract: Chronic migraine is defined as having more than 15 headache days in a month, half of these showing migraine features, for at least 3 months. It is a chronic painful syndrome with aspects such as psychiatric comorbid, decreased quality of life, and environmental and intrinsic psychological factors that make face-to-face treatment difficult. Children and adolescent migraine differ from adults as a result of growing brain and evolving disorder. In this paper, we will emphasize the definition, diagnosis, epidemiology, burden of life, and management of chronic migraine in children and adolescent.
authors.affiliation: Neurology Department, Mersin University School of Medicine, Mersin, Turkey. aozge@mersin.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Aynur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Özge
authors.affiliation: Neurology Department, Istanbul Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Osman Özgür
authors.initials: OÖ
authors.lastname: Yalin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015897:Comorbidity; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011788:Quality of Life; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Burden; Children; Chronic migraine; Diagnosis; Management