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Open Access 01-12-2014 | Research article

Central auditory processing and migraine: a controlled study

Authors: Larissa Mendonça Agessi, Thaís Rodrigues Villa, Karin Ziliotto Dias, Deusvenir de Souza Carvalho, Liliane Desgualdo Pereira

Published in: The Journal of Headache and Pain | Issue 1/2014

Abstract

Background

This study aimed to verify and compare central auditory processing (CAP) performance in migraine with and without aura patients and healthy controls.

Methods

Forty-one volunteers of both genders, aged between 18 and 40 years, diagnosed with migraine with and without aura by the criteria of “The International Classification of Headache Disorders” (ICDH-3 beta) and a control group of the same age range and with no headache history, were included. Gaps-in-noise (GIN), Duration Pattern test (DPT) and Dichotic Digits Test (DDT) tests were used to assess central auditory processing performance.

Results

The volunteers were divided into 3 groups: Migraine with aura (11), migraine without aura (15), and control group (15), matched by age and schooling. Subjects with aura and without aura performed significantly worse in GIN test for right ear (p = .006), for left ear (p = .005) and for DPT test (p < .001) when compared with controls without headache, however no significant differences were found in the DDT test for the right ear (p = .362) and for the left ear (p = .190).

Conclusions

Subjects with migraine performed worsened in auditory gap detection, in the discrimination of short and long duration. They also presented impairment in the physiological mechanism of temporal processing, especially in temporal resolution and temporal ordering when compared with controls. Migraine could be related to an impaired central auditory processing.

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Title: Central auditory processing and migraine: a controlled study
Authors: Larissa Mendonça Agessi
Thaís Rodrigues Villa
Karin Ziliotto Dias
Deusvenir de Souza Carvalho
Liliane Desgualdo Pereira
Publication date: 01-12-2014
Publisher: Springer Milan
Published in: The Journal of Headache and Pain / Issue 1/2014
Print ISSN: 1129-2369
Electronic ISSN: 1129-2377
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1129-2377-15-72

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Central auditory processing and migraine: a controlled study

Abstract

Background

Methods

Results

Conclusions

Clinical trial registration

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Abstract

Background

Methods

Results

Conclusions

Clinical trial registration

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