Gandhari Basu, Dipanjan Nandi, Sujata Biswas, Suman Kumar Roy
Quality of life and depression among diabetic patients attending the lifestyle clinic of a teaching hospital, West Bengal
Journal of family medicine and primary care
literature evidences intellectual profile adolescents headache study used fourth edition wechsler intelligence scale children wisciv patients diagnosis headache according ichdiiibeta recruited 30 patients age 1114 years malefemale 12 seen headache tertiary center northern italy 30 healthy controls matched age sex recruited public school geographic area diagnosis headache done according ichdiii criteria beta version case group composed 16 patients migraine 14 tensiontype headache cognitive functioning assessed using wisciv recruited patients idiopathic headache diagnosis average cognitive function within normal range found statistically significant differences total intellective quotient comparing patients headache controls working memory index however lower patients headache p 0012 particular found lower digit span p 0001 also found borderline statistical difference p 0051 case controls verbal comprehension index cvi due lower score similarities subtest p 0001 results suggest although within normal limits cognitive functioning adolescents headache differs healthy peers regarding memory verbal skills working memory index related subjects ability store new information keep shortterm memory maintain focused attention manipulate find solutions difference similarities also important provides measure level verbal reasoning concept formation also measure verbal abstract thinking skills relevant language development lexical knowledge auditory comprehension memory ability discriminate essential nonessential characteristics data keep previous findings suggest need researches better understand pathogenesis difficulties obtain ideas adequate rehabilitative treatment