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Neuropediatrics 2017; 48(02): 123-126
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1598046
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Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Auditory Processing in Children with Migraine: A Controlled Study

Larissa Mendonça Agessi
1   Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil
,
Thaís Rodrigues Villa
2   Division of Investigation and Treatment of Headaches (DITH), Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil
,
Deusvenir de Souza Carvalho
2   Division of Investigation and Treatment of Headaches (DITH), Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil
,
Liliane Desgualdo Pereira
2   Division of Investigation and Treatment of Headaches (DITH), Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil
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26 August 2016

12 December 2016

Publication Date:
25 January 2017 (online)

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Abstract

Background This study aimed to investigate central auditory processing performance in children with migraine and compared with controls without headache.

Methods Twenty-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.

Results Children 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.

Conclusions Children 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.

Keywords

migraine - children - auditory processing - memory - attention - auditory cortex

Note

The study was financially supported by CNPQ—National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development.


The clinical trial registration and the name of the database where the trial was registered is Research Ethics Committee (CEP 415.593)—UNIFESP.


 

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