title: Auditory Processing in Children with Migraine: A Controlled Study.
abstract: BackgroundThis study aimed to investigate central auditory processing performance in children with migraine and compared with controls without headache.MethodsTwenty-eight children of both sexes, aged between 8 and 12 years, diagnosed with migraine with and without aura, and a control group of the same age range and with no headache history, were included. Gaps-in-noise (GIN), duration pattern test (DPT), synthetic sentence identification (SSI) test, and nonverbal dichotic test (NVDT) were used to assess central auditory processing performance.ResultsChildren with migraine performed significantly worse in DPT, SSI test, and NVDT when compared with controls without headache; however, no significant differences were found in the GIN test.ConclusionsChildren with migraine demonstrate impairment in the physiologic mechanism of temporal processing and selective auditory attention. In our short communication, migraine could be related to impaired central auditory processing in children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Larissa Mendonça
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Agessi
authors.affiliation: Division of Investigation and Treatment of Headaches (DITH), Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Thaís Rodrigues
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Villa
authors.affiliation: Division of Investigation and Treatment of Headaches (DITH), Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Deusvenir de Souza
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.affiliation: Division of Investigation and Treatment of Headaches (DITH), Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Liliane Desgualdo
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Pereira
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001308:Auditory Perceptual Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006320:Hearing Tests; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D020325:Migraine with Aura / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D020326:Migraine without Aura / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests